According to the execution report of the General State Budget (OGE) for the second quarter of 2021, the execution of expenditure to prevent and combat the pandemic in that period reached an execution rate of around 46 percent.
Regarding the category of expenses, of the total amount executed in the aforementioned quarter, 40.2 billion kwanzas were spent on expenses with goods and services and 387 million kwanzas in capital expenditures.
The document presented to parliament on Wednesday by the Minister of Finance, Vera Daves, was approved this Thursday, after its discussion, following the sixth extraordinary plenary meeting regarding the fifth legislative session of the fourth legislature.
The plenary of the National Assembly approved the report with 166 votes in favour, 41 votes against and five abstentions.
Angola, which has been in a situation of calamity for more than a year to contain the spread of the virus, has a total of 98,758 positive cases of covid-19, of which 96,716 have recovered, 142 are active and 1,900 have died.
The latest decree on the public calamity situation eased the restriction measures, mainly due to the low number of contagions recorded during last February.
The decree allows for an increase in the workforce to 100 percent, the opening of beaches and public swimming pools from March 5, among other measures.
Covid-19 has caused at least 5,962,297 deaths worldwide since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the latest report by the Agence France-Presse.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
The rapidly spreading and mutating Ómicron variant has become dominant in the world since it was first detected in November in South Africa.
