{"id":4982,"date":"2020-05-04T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T08:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=4982"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:32:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T08:32:22","slug":"ankara-delivers-mogadishu-medical-aid-to-fight-coronvirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/05\/04\/ankara-delivers-mogadishu-medical-aid-to-fight-coronvirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankara delivers Mogadishu medical aid to fight coronvirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ANKARA &#8212; <\/strong>A Turkish plane carrying medical aid landed early Monday in the Somalian capital\u00a0to help the country combat the novel coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We delivered medical aid supplies to Somalia upon\u00a0the directives of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the aim of combating the COVID-19 outbreak. A Turkish Armed Forces aircraft which took off last night has landed in Mogadishu,&#8221;\u00a0the Defense Ministry said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aid was received by\u00a0Somali Foreign Minister Abdulkadir Ahmed Khair and Health Minister Fowziya Abikar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An A-400M military plane carrying supplies including stretchers, beds, and quilts departed from Etimesgut Military Airport in the Turkish capital Ankara.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Saturday, Turkey also sent a shipment of medical supplies to Somalia, including new Turkish-made ventilators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aid packages bear the Turkish presidential seal along with the Turkish and Somali flags and a famous saying by 13th-century poet and mystic Mevlana Rumi: &#8220;There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University in the US, there are 722 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 32 deaths in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, there are over 42,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent &#8212; with more than 1,700 associated deaths, according to WHO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egypt, South Africa, Algeria, Tunisia, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria, Guinea, Ivory Coast are the worst affected countries by the virus in Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/health\/turkey-delivers-somalia-medical-aid-to-tackle-virus\/1827857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA &#8212; A Turkish plane carrying medical aid landed early Monday in the Somalian capital\u00a0to help the country combat the novel coronavirus outbreak. &#8220;We delivered medical aid supplies to Somalia upon\u00a0the directives of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the aim of combating the COVID-19 outbreak. A Turkish Armed Forces aircraft which took off last night &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news","category-relief"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4982"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5002,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4982\/revisions\/5002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}