Russia's daily spending to fight COVID exceeded ₽3 billion

Against the backdrop of an increase in the incidence of covid-19 in recent weeks, RUSSIA spends an average of about 3.6 billion rubles to fight the epidemic. per day, said Finance Minister Anton Siluanov

“On average, we spent about 2 billion rubles a day on covid under normal circumstances, now in a special situation, with a surge in diseases, 3.6 billion rubles a day,” Siluanov said at a meeting with senators in the Open Dialogue format. "(quote from RIA Novosti).

The minister noted that, despite all the difficulties, problems with the provision of planned assistance to citizens should not be allowed.

In this regard, Siluanov said that the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of HEALTH had prepared proposals for additional allocations to support the compulsory medical insurance system (OMI) in the amount of more than 50 billion rubles.

“Will there be additional tranches to support the CHI system? Will. Together with the Ministry of Health, we have now calculated the necessary volumes and are preparing proposals to the government. This figure will be more than 50 billion rubles. To be precise, while 56 billion rubles. So we appreciated. These proposals will be submitted to the government so that the government can finally put an end to it. I think that it will be in the coming days,” the minister said (quote from Interfax).

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