Russia Spends Over $50Mln Daily On Combating COVID-19 - Finance Ministry

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 19th October, 2021) Russia spends an average of about 3.6 billion rubles ($50.7 million) a day on the fight against coronavirus, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Tuesday.

"On average, we spent about 2 billion rubles a day on covid a day under normal circumstances, now in a special situation, with a surge in diseases, we spend 3.6 billion rubles a day," Siluanov said.

He stressed that even in such conditions, there should be no problems with the provision of planned assistance to citizens.