Russia spends on the fight against coronavirus, on average about 3.6 billion rubles a day, such an amount of expenses revealed the head of the Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov, RIA Novosti reports.
The Ministry of Finance is preparing a proposal to addition to the fight against a pandemic of 50 billion rubles, he noted. Previously, Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova suggested introducing from October 30 to November 7, non-working days. At the same time, for a number of regions, the deputy chairman of the government believes, it should be provided for non-working days from October 23.
The cumulative expenses of the federal budget to combat the direct and indirect consequences of the coronavirus infection in Russia in 2020 amounted to 2.856 trillion rubles, or 12.5 percent of the total budget expenditures.
Coronavirus pandemic has become the most powerful blow to the federal budget of Russia since the beginning of the century. The effect of the pandemic exceeded the effect of crisis 2008-2009 and 2014.