Ukraine's Cabinet allocates over US$1.4 mln from reserve fund to combat coronavirus

REUTERS The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has allocated UAH 39.2 million (US$1.41 million) from the national budget reserve fund for a number of measures to combat the spread of COVID-19 disease in Ukraine. Read alsoKyiv to halt public transportation from March 23 "In particular, a sum worth UAH 35.6 million [US$1.28 million] was allocated to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine, UAH 3.6 million [US$129,496] for providing personal protective equipment to employees involved in the implementation of anti-epidemic measures was allotted to the Ministry of Justice (for the State Criminal Enforcement Service)," reads a statement published on the government portal, following an extraordinary meeting on March 20. The Cabinet of Ministers also allocated UAH 639,000 (US$22,986) from the state budget reserve fund to the Infrastructure Ministry for the reimbursement of expenses related to the emergency evacuation of Ukrainian citizens and their families from the coronavirus spread zone in Italy. As UNIAN reported earlier, the Ukrainian government on March 20 introduced an emergency situation regime in the city of Kyiv, as well as Dnipropetrovsk and Ivano-Frankivsk regions. The Cabinet of Ministers on March 11 decided to introduce quarantine across Ukraine from March 12 to April 3.

Ukraine's Cabinet allocates over US$1.4 mln from reserve fund to combat coronavirus

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