June 8 (SeeNews) - Serbia's government has paid out to 6.1 million citizens 100 euro ($113) in one-off compensation for the restrictions imposed to limit the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), finance minister Sinisa Mali said on Monday.
"From May 15 to June 15, within a period of 20 days, a total of 4,325,500 citizens applied for the compensation. In total, after including pensioners and people receiving social benefits who received the compensation automatically, the number of people who received the payment is 6,145,529," Mali said in a video file posted on the website of news agency Tanjug.
With the programme the government contributed to the country's economic recovery after the coronavirus crisis, Mali said.
In April, the government of Serbia, a country with a population of 7 million, revised the 2020 budget, increasing the projected fiscal deficit to 381 billion dinars ($3.51 billion/3.24 billion euro) in order to cover the costs of measures aimed at limiting the impact of the coronavirus crisis.
($ = 0.8869 euro)