Minister of Economy reveals COVID-19 costs for Belarusian budget

27 сентября 2021

About two thousand enterprises applied to the state for help in connection with the epidemic. The total support amounted to about Br19 million. The Minister of Economy announced how much COVID costs to the Belarusian budget.  Businesses were provided with the financial relief in terms of land tax, reduced rents for this amount.  But most importantly, according to Alexander Chervyakov, the country has managed to avoid the lock-out. As for support of the health care system, the sums are many times higher.


Allocation of funds for vaccination, as well as payment of COVID-19, allowances to medics are also planned for the next year. In total, more than 4.5% of GDP is planned to be allocated to finance the health care system.