Plenty of budget to deal with latest outbreak, says Finance Minister
Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith said on Monday the country still had sufficient budget to curb the Covid-19 outbreak, following a surge in cases over the weekend.
The government still has hundreds of billion baht left from the Bt1 trillion borrowing under the emergency decree to combat the crisis, he added.
He said it was too soon to evaluate the impact on the economy of the latest outbreak, numbered at 821 cases on Monday.
The Council of State said that of the total Bt1 trillion borrowing, Bt450 billion was earmarked for vaccine procurement and another Bt550 billion to relieve burdens on people hit by the fallout of Covid-19.
Another Bt400 billion has been allocated for economic revival, though this can be redirected to the relief fund.
