Project ID: 92111

Chinese Government donates PPE to Ghana for COVID-19 relief

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Ghana

Sector

Health (Code: 120)

Flow type

Grant

Infrastructure

No

COVID

Yes

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Completion (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2020-04-06

Actual start

2020-04-06

Actual complete

2020-04-06

Description

On April 6, 2020, the Chinese Government donated personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies to Ghana. This batch of medical assistance arrived in Accra, capital of Ghana. The purpose of this donation is to help Ghana combat the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. The items are part of 60 tonnes of materials that have been donated to Ghana and 17 other countries for the fight against the disease. The items, which arrived at the Kotoka International Airport on board a chartered Chinese aircraft, would be distributed from Ghana to the other African countries with the support of the World Food programme's (WFP) Ghana office. The other African countries are Nigeria, Senegal, Gabon, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Cote d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Liberia and Mali, Burkina Faso, Equatorial Guinea, Togo, Benin, Republic of Congo, Cape Verde, and Sao Tome and Principe.

Number of official sources

6

Number of total sources

13

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Ghana [Government Agency]