By A Staff Reporter

Kathmandu, June 13: The government on Friday made public details of the expenditure on prevention and control of the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. A meeting of the High-Level Coordination Committee to prevent and control the COVID-19 had recently publicised that almost Rs. 10 billion was spent by three tiers of the government to fight against coronavirus, which has drawn criticism from public.
A group of youth has been staging across the country amid COVID-19 fear for the past three days accusing the government of resorting to corruption and demanding details of expenditure made to fight the virus.
The government Friday evening furnished the proper breakdown of the money spent in the fight against COVID-19 to soothe the street demonstrations and public criticism.
As per the details provided by the government, a sum of Rs. 8,391,199,000 has been spent under the federal, state and local governments in COVID-19 response.
According to the expenditure details, the central government has spent Rs.4, 105,506,000 while State and local governments have spent Rs. 1,300,499,000 and Rs. 2,985,194,000 respectively.
As per the details issued by the government, Rs. 3,908,800,000 was spent in importing medical goods and equipment from the Coronavirus Prevention, Control and Treatment Fund (CPCTF) established by the federal government.
Likewise, Rs. 1,125,000,000 has been spent for setting up health infrastructure, Rs. 58,333,000 has been spent for mobilising manpower, Rs. 135,598,000 for setting up quarantine facilities and Rs. 401,509,000 has been spent for various activities.
Similarly, Rs. 193,560,000 has been spent by the State 1, Rs. 133,946,000 by State 2, Rs. 136,700,000 by Bagmati State, Rs.154, 210,000 by Gandaki State and Rs. 77,930,000 by State 5 in COVID-19 response.
Likewise, the Karnali State has spent Rs. 239,283,000 and Rs. 364,870,000 by Sudurpaschim State, according to the details made public today.