"On average, we spent about 2 billion rubles a day on COVID-19 under normal circumstances, now, in a special situation, with a surge in the disease, 3.6 billion rubles a day," RIA Novosti quotes Siluanov.
The minister stressed that it is necessary to avoid problems with the provision of routine medical care to citizens.
“We both last year and this year provided additional support to the health care system.
Last year we also used the leftovers that had accumulated, and this year we have already allocated additional resources for more than 80 billion rubles.
Will there be additional tranches to support the CHI system?
There will be.
We have now, together with the Ministry of Health, calculated the required volumes and are preparing proposals to the government - it will be more than 50 billion rubles, ”he added.
Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed an order on the allocation of additional funds to the regions for special social benefits in the amount of about 69 billion rubles.