More than $8.15 million in federal funding is coming to Alabama to help fund the state’s response to coronavirus.

The money, awarded through the Centers for Disease Control, is part of an $8.3 billion federal funding package to bolster treatment and prevention of COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus.

Included in the package was $950 million for state and local public health response with the stipulation it must be allocated within 30 days.

“These funds will allow public health leaders to implement critical steps necessary to contain and mitigate spread of the virus in communities across the country,” CDC Director Robert Redfield, M.D., said.

At this time, there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Alabama.

Prior to March 5, Alabama and most other states were sending testing for COVID-19 to the CDC. Since then, 10 tests were conducted in Alabama. Nationally, there are more than 1,000 coronavirus cases in the U.S. with 31 deaths.