{"id":4209,"date":"2020-07-11T16:06:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2020-07-21T12:33:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T08:03:12","slug":"press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/?p=4209","title":{"rendered":"Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">EQUALITY for Peace and Development (EPD) with the support of Embassy of Canada has launched the project \u201cPreventing the spread of Covid-19 through awareness raising, advocacy and mobilization of religious leaders, community elders and women activists\u201d in Herat and Kandahar cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Herat\u2019s close proximity to the Islamic Republic of Iran \u2013 which was an epicenter for the spread of the COVID-19 during March, put the province at a heightened risk with tens of thousands of people crossing the border on daily basis. Similarly, Kandahar shares border with Pakistan and thousands of Afghans returned from Pakistan through the Chaman border. The returnees, some surely infected with the coronavirus\u00a0when in Iran and Pakistan, clustered shoulder to shoulder in massive crowds on both sides of the crossing, where basic hygiene facilities are scarce. This massive influx from Iran and Pakistan to the cities of Herat and Kandahar made people vulnerable to COVID-19 at the community level. The cases of COVID -19 are high in number in these two provinces. It is therefore important to raise awareness on the preventive measures of COVID-19 in these provinces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here is a Press Release link.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Press-Release.pdf\">Press Release<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EQUALITY for Peace and Development with the support of Embassy of Canada has launched the project \u201cPreventing the spread of Covid-19 through awareness raising, advocacy and mobilization of religious leaders, community elders and women activists\u201d in Herat and Kandahar cities.<br \/>\nHerat\u2019s close proximity to the Islamic Republic of Iran \u2013 which was an epicenter for the spread of the COVID-19 during March, put the province at a heightened risk with tens of thousands of people crossing the border on daily basis. Similarly, Kandahar<a href=\"press-release\"> Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4217,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions\/4217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.epd-afg.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}