“The Board of the National Bank decided to lower the discount rate to 8%,” the NBU quotes “112 Ukraine”.

It is noted that the bank expects a rate reduction to 7%.

The NBU promised that further decisions will take into account the deployment of the pandemic and the analysis of anti-crisis measures in other countries.

On April 23, it was reported that in Ukraine, 578 cases of coronavirus infection were detected per day, the total number of cases increased to 7170.