The latest statistics show that total COVID-19 related state expenditure has reached MVR 2.72 billion. Of this, MVR 1.3 billion has been spent on health and social efforts.
According to the weekly COVID-19 spending report by the Ministry of Finance, a total of MVR 1,342.6 million was spent on health and social efforts by 10th December, which is a 0.4 percent increase from the previous week.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has had the highest total expenditure so far, at MVR 871.7 million. With total spending of MVR 228.2 million in COVID-19 health and social efforts, the Ministry of Health comes second while state-run Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) has spent a total of MVR 85.9 million on the pandemic response efforts.
Further COVID-19 health and social spending thus far are as follows:
- Maldives Immigration – MVR 0.9 million
- Maldives National Defence Force – MVR 42.3 million
- Maldives Police Service – MVR 24.3 million
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs – MVR 6.8 million
- Ministry of Gender, Family and Social Affairs – MVR 3.4 million
- Ministry of National Planning and Infrastructure – MVR 37.3 million
- Ministry of Higher Education – MVR 3.3 million
- National Social Protection Agency – MVR 8.4 million
- National Drug Agency – MVR 1.1 million
- Disaster Management Fund – MVR 84.1 million
- Tourism Activities Implementation Fund – MVR 29 million
