In an interview with Channel One, he pointed out discussions about the need to "immediately pay everyone out of the budget."

“This is also wrong. Budgets will crack, they won’t even be able to provide a health care system and so on, ”RIA Novosti quotes Sobyanin.

According to him, in this case, the business "must show its social position."

“We are not talking about the fact that for six months it is necessary to dissolve (employees. - RT ) on vacations,” the mayor said.

As Sobyanin emphasized, while we are talking about a month of non-working days in which "most enterprises will have enough resources to provide for that part of the people who are not working today."

“Once again, it’s not so big, really,” he said.

He said that the business where most people stopped going to work needs priority support.

On April 2, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, in an appeal to citizens, announced that the holiday regime in the country was extended until April 30. Later, the head of state signed a decree.

As indicated in the Kremlin, the regime of non-working days will continue until the threat of exceeding the epidemiological threshold for the coronavirus remains relevant.