The World Health Organization announced that its Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund received a $10 million donation from TikTok, the popular app used to make short videos
State Department official: More than 13,000 US citizens abroad are seeking help to get homeTourists from the United States wait outside the closed Jorge Chavez International Airport,i n Callao Peru, for a member of the U.
S. Embassy to escort them to a flight that will fly them back to the U.S. on Friday, March 20. Martin Mejia/AP The State Department is tracking approximately 13,500 US citizens abroad who are seeking assistance in being repatriated, a senior State Department official said Monday. The official said the State Department is examining a variety of means to get those citizens home, saying that “no option is foreclosed out.” They said the State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs is working with private charters to get them into places to help with repatriation efforts. “We are using some cases — and I expect this will be happening in expanded fashion as we go out from here – we’re using what's called the K Fund. It's a special fund authorized by Congress to allow us to meet unexpected emergencies,” they said on a call with reporters. “We have organized a number of flights already on the K Fund, K-Fund charters.” “We're looking at 16 or so flights in the next five days. And we've got additionally about 1,600 passengers, over 1,600 passengers identified for those flights with room for more,” they said.“We're also working with the Department of Homeland Security. They're flying planes into Central America, and they are prepared to bring folks back on those aircraft. So it's a variety of different US government aircraft,” they said. The official said they are prioritizing space on the flights for those with vulnerabilities, such as age and medical conditions. “If we have somebody who is 70 years old with an underlying condition, such as diabetes or heart disease, that person is going to get a higher priority on one of those flights, than the hale and hearty 20 year old,” they said. That official said about 5,700 people had been brought back, and “the great majority of those were coming back through State Department chartered aircraft.” They cited the 800+ brought back from Wuhan in late January, the 300+ from Yokohama and “approximately 1200 came out of Morocco last week.” They said they “had other people come out of Central America recently.”
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