These are immediate measures that the Government adopted in response to the effects of the pandemic of codiv-19 and which were approved by the Economic Commission of the Council of Ministers.
The executive's objective is "to mitigate the effects of the external shock on the growth trajectory of the non-oil sector".
In terms of family income, the Government approved a measure that will represent a three percent increase in workers' wages, by transferring the discount amount to Social Security (three percent) for these salaries in April, May and June 2020.
In order to "ensure the supply of energy and water to households", the Ministry of Energy and Water recommended to companies in the sector that they do not make cuts to the supply of water and energy to customers with difficulties in paying bills during the month of April".
Another of the approved measures aims to "guarantee the consumption of food from the basic food basket for the most vulnerable families", for which "315 million kwanzas were made available to the Ministry of Social Action, Family and Promotion of Women.
This ministry will now have to, together with the provincial governments, develop campaigns to distribute goods from the basic basket to segments of the most vulnerable population ".
In May, the first phase of the Social Monetary Transfers Program will start, which will have one million and six hundred thousand beneficiary families, as the Government intends to "improve the income of the poorest families affected by the depth of the economic crisis that the country is experiencing" .
This Thursday, the National Assembly unanimously approved the renewal, for another 15 days, from zero hours on April 11 until midnight on April 25, of the State of emergency, in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. , which has already caused two deaths in Angola, out of a total of 19 positive cases, including two recovered.
