Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n
THE Government had by the first half of the year channeled a total of $1,8 billion towards the county\u2019s fight in the containment of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
Presenting the mid-term budget and economic review on Thursday Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube said since the onset of the pandemic in March, Government is tackling Coronavirus in a multi-sectoral approach which had seen the funds being disbursed to various Ministries, agencies and Government departments.<\/p>\n
Prof Ncube noted that direct support to the Ministry of Health and Child Care amounted to $738.5 million.<\/p>\n
\u201cSupport for the Ministry of Health and Child Care mainly went to Covid-19 Risk allowances, additional employment costs from recruitment of additional staff to fight Covid-19, capacity building of health staff, procurement of health and laboratory equipment including the consumables, procurement of Personnel Protective equipment; and the rehabilitation and construction of isolation units.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the quest to promote local production of PPEs, especially face masks and sanitizers, institutions of higher learning were provided with $33 million seed capital which has seen the country benefit from this initiative through import substitution,\u201d said the Minister.<\/p>\n
He revealed that $10 million was availed to the Midlands State University for reproduction of Covid-19 materials, while $32.8 million went towards supporting the e-learning initiative.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn order to enforce lockdown restrictions, the security sector received $197 million. This support was operational support which included production of PPEs and enhancing surveillance capabilities of the institutions during this lockdown.<\/p>\n
\u201cSupport to the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement of $18,14 million went towards drilling of boreholes 63 whilst DDF complimented in the drilling of boreholes and $19,96 million was availed,\u201d said Minister Ncube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Africa Press-Nigeria: THE Government had by the first half of the year channeled a total of $1,8 billion towards the county\u2019s fight in the containment of the Covid-19 pandemic. Presenting the mid-term budget and economic review on Thursday Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube said since the onset of the pandemic in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":18986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1388,807],"class_list":{"0":"post-25372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"tag-covid-19","10":"tag-mthuli-ncube"},"yoast_head":"\n