About UAH 25 billion has already been spent on the fight against coronavirus in Ukraine. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Finance.

In particular, UAH 16.9 billion was used from the Coronavirus Fight Fund and UAH 4.8 billion from state and local budgets.. Also, UAH 2.7 billion was paid by the National Health Service to service providers under the program of medical guarantees.

As of August 13, 4.816 billion UAH have already been spent on the procurement of goods and services to combat the coronavirus, including UAH 1.927 billion from the state budget, UAH 2.889 billion from local budgets.

In particular, UAH 1.604 billion was spent on the purchase of medicines and medical products, on the purchase of medical equipment - UAH 1.510 billion, on the purchase of masks, antiseptics and disinfectants - UAH 703.4 million, on the services of irregular transportation of physicians and patients - UAH 895.2 million,.

The total volume of the Coronavirus Fight Fund is UAH 66 billion. The fund was formed at the expense of budget funds. These resources should be directed: - to the healthcare sector - UAH 16.3 billion; - for the social sphere - UAH 10.6 billion;

- for the sphere of ensuring law and order - UAH 2.5 billion; - to stimulate the economy - UAH 36 billion; - for partial recovery of state budget expenditures - UAH 0.5 billion; - to support the education sector - UAH 52.5 million.

On August 21, it became known that the number of cases of COVID-19 in Ukraine exceeded 100,000 people. On August 21, the Ministry of Health decided to open second wave hospitals due to the large number of cases of COVID-19. LIGABiznesInform informs about it.