The US Treasury assessed the impact of COVID-2019 on the country's economy

As he said at a hearing on the appropriations committee of the US House of Representatives, the virus will not affect the US economy in the long run.

“This problem will affect only the next year. We are not talking about influence in the long run, ”TASS quoted him.

Along with this, the minister added that the country's authorities had already begun to take “precautions” in connection with the coronavirus.

Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Ksenia Yudaev said that the direct impact of the situation with the coronavirus infection COVID-19 on the Russian economy is minimal.

On March 2, the former Minister of Economics of Russia Andrei Nechaev, in an interview with the NSN, assessed the impact of coronavirus on the world economy.