PM Gakharia: ‘shock of pandemic will last until end of 2020, we have to increase social help'

At today's government meeting Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia tasked the Ministry of Finance to reexamine every social group and allocate resources for citizens who are in special need. Photo: Gov't of Georgia.

Agenda.ge, 16 Jul 2020 - 13:14, Tbilisi,Georgia

As the shock of the pandemic is expected to last until the end of the year the government of Georgia is taking actions to further support individuals affected by the crisis. 

At today's government meeting Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia tasked the Ministry of Finance to reexamine every social group and allocate resources for citizens who are in special need.

Despite all the positive tendencies, the shock of the pandemic will last until the end of the year. Therefore, we should reexamine every social group and allocate resources for citizens who are in special need. I also want to emphasise that as of today, 721,000 citizens have already received social assistance packages which had been created by the government", said Gakharia.

Gakharia said that 'together with our citizens we have managed the virus effectively, this is the key to recover the economy rapidly and effectively'. 

Some positive signs have already appeared in our economy and activities beyond the tourism sector have clearly increased, as well as in the financial sector the indicators are quite positive; in terms of tax revenue, in terms of current account balance. All this is only the result of the fact that we, the country, have managed and still effectively manage the virus", said Gakharia.

Gakharia said that activities have increased in some fields of the economy and especially since the government announced anti-crisis programmes.