MVR 560 million spent on Covid-19 response efforts, thus far

A total of MVR 560 million has been spent on Covid-19 response efforts thus far.

The Covid-19 taskforce’s spokesperson Mohamed Mabrook Aziz revealed this during Sunday night’s press conference at the National Emergency Operations Center (NEOC).

Noting that a total of MVR 560 million had been spent on Covid-19 combat efforts by Saturday, the spokesperson detailed these expenses;

Further, Mabrook noted that the estimated expenditure amount for the next three months is MVR 1.4 billion.

While Finance Minister Ibrahim Ameer had revealed this at a press conference last week, he had stressed that this is an estimation and that the expenditure will depend on the spread and control of the virus.

Maldives has confirmed a total of 214 Covid-19 cases thus far, with 73 new cases announced within the last 24 hours.