{"id":20802,"date":"2020-05-28T20:54:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=20802"},"modified":"2020-05-28T20:54:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T16:54:30","slug":"uae-sends-medical-aid-to-iraqi-kurdistan-in-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2020\/05\/28\/uae-sends-medical-aid-to-iraqi-kurdistan-in-fight-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE sends medical aid to Iraqi Kurdistan in fight against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United Arab Emirates today sent an aid plane containing six metric tons of medical supplies to Iraqi Kurdistan to bolster efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aid will assist approximately 6,000 medical professionals as they work to contain the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting on the aid delivery, Ahmed Al Dhaheri, UAE Consul-General to the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, stated: &#8220;The UAE is honored to extend a hand of assistance to Iraqi Kurdistan to aid its fight against COVID-19. Our brotherly relations serve as the foundation of this cooperation, through which we will help frontline medical workers combat this virus in a safe and protected manner.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The UAE stands by Iraq as it tirelessly exerts all efforts to uphold public health and security in light of these difficult circumstances,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To date, the UAE has responded to the COVID-19 crisis by providing over 658 metric tons of aid to 57 countries in need, supporting more than 658,000 medical professionals in the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Arab Emirates today sent an aid plane containing six metric tons of medical supplies to Iraqi Kurdistan to bolster efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19. The aid will assist approximately 6,000 medical professionals as they work to contain the virus. Commenting on the aid delivery, Ahmed Al Dhaheri, UAE Consul-General to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20804,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20802\/revisions\/20804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}