Mozambique has channelled 54 percent of the US$700 million (573 million euros) requested from international partners to tackle the covid-19 pandemic by November, President Filipe Nyusi announced today.
“This amount [379 million dollars, 310 million euros] was distributed for prevention, treatment, losses [due to the economic slowdown] and transfers to families and micro-businesses,” he said during the information session on the state of the nation in parliament.
Nyusi argued for transparency and, by the way, pointed out that the figures are published on the portal of the Ministry of Economy and Finance.
The economic slowdown brought sleepless nights, he said, but “despite all the constraints, life in Mozambique has not stopped,” he noted.
The head of state announced a communication to the nation for Thursday in the context of the covid-19 festival, he added, referring to the time for more details on the impact of the pandemic in Mozambique.
At the end of a three-hour speech in parliament, the Mozambican Head of State said today that the state of the Nation was “an innovative and renewed hope response”, after a year in which he faced unprecedented threats of terrorism in the north of the country and the covid-19 pandemic.
After a five-month state of emergency that began on 1 April to implement measures to prevent contagion, on 7 September the country entered the stage of a state of calamity for an indefinite period, defining the phased recovery of economic activities in the country.
