“Of course, they calculated it this time, but at the moment, any economic miscalculations against the background of the main task (this is to preserve people's health and protect people from the epidemiological danger) are secondary,” Peskov said.
Earlier, the chairman of the board of Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, said that the damage to the Russian economy from the coronavirus COVID-19 would amount to trillions of rubles.
The head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov, commenting on the situation, said that small businesses already “very well feel” the influence of the spread of coronavirus infection on themselves, especially in large cities.