reply Putin asked the Russian government to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises

Russian President vladimir putin said Monday that the government should take measures to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises affected by the outbreak.Putin said in a video conference with members of the Russian government on economic issues that the new epidemic has severely affected the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) and the government can provide them with free financial assistance. The money should be used first to pay staff to save jobs.Putin also urged the government to take other measures to support economic development, including to catering, tourism, hotels and other industries of small and medium-sized enterprise is not higher than the Russian central bank benchmark interest rate loans, to an extra 200 billion roubles (us $2.67 billion) of local government funding, provide industry with 23 billion roubles (us $300 million) funding support, study and formulate measures to promote the development of construction industry, automobile industry, banking, etc.In the past 24 hours, 3,388 new cases were confirmed in Russia, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 24,490, including 198 deaths and 1,986 cases cured and discharged, according to the latest data released by the Russian epidemic prevention headquarters on Monday.