Putin demanded that the Russian regions allocate 10 billion rubles to fight coronavirus

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the Government instructed to allocate 10 billion rubles to fight the country to combat the spread of the Covid-19. The broadcast was carried out on the Russia 24 channel.

According to Putin, the money should go to transport services for those in need of this support, the purchase of masks and gloves, improving the material and technical base and testing. The President also demanded to allocate 5 billion rubles to provide free medicines for those who are treated at home.

During the speech, Vladimir Putin, as Medusa notes , twice said that it is too early to talk about the beginning of the second wave of the epidemic in Russia. He said that, according to experts, "in some territories, not only the second, only the first wave came up."

At the end of October, the authorities of St. Petersburg said that the increase in the incidence of coronavirus in the city allows us to talk about the second wave of Covid-19.

Actual news about the distribution of Covid-19 in the city read in the section "Papers" " Coronavirus in St. Petersburg ".