China’s finance ministry said on Sunday all levels of government had allocated a total of 71.85 billion yuan ($10.26 billion) as of Saturday afternoon to fight coronavirus.
According to Reuters, the ministry will deploy the funds to ensure that members of the public can afford diagnosis and treatment, it said in a statement on its website.
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The funds will also be used to ensure that efforts of every region to fight the virus are not hampered by financial constraints, it added.
($1 = 7.0003 Chinese yuan renminbi)
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