The United States government has distributed P14.8 million worth of regionally manufactured personal protective equipment to the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) and other facilities for Covid-19 treatment across the country.
The financial assistance came a month after President Rodrigo Duterte had an 18-minute telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump tackling bilateral efforts to manage the pandemic.
This was Ambassador Kim’s reaction to reports that a Filipino, identified as 23-year-old Norman Lasuca, a Jolo, Sulu resident, was one of two suicide bombers who killed six people and wounded 22 others in Indanan town on June 28.
Sung Kim’s new assignment was announced by the Trump administration hours after the American embassy denied reports that State Department official Mina Chang would be the new envoy to Manila.