Putin said about the lack of coherence in the early stages of the epidemic

In the early stages of the fight against the spread of coronavirus authorities lacked coherence, however, the country managed to prevent the explosive growth of unemployment. This was stated by the head of state Vladimir Putin. Broadcast of his speech at a meeting on national projects led channel “Russia-24”.

“We made explosive, as in some countries, dramatic rise in unemployment. This suggests that we have a big reserve to operate more efficiently and more smoothly. Sometimes, admittedly, this coherence in the early stages of the epidemic is not enough” — said the head of state.

According to Putin, the authorities, through the national unity failed to “adequately” respond to the challenge of the epidemic, “although not without problems.”

According to the President, “high quality requirements of the whole system of government” the citizens of Russia presented in the course of voting on amendments to the Constitution. “This public inquiry is, of course, should serve as a guide for all ministries, departments, regional management teams and colleagues from the municipalities,”he said.

In June, the Minister of labour and social protection Anton Kotkov reported that the number of officially registered unemployed in Russia increased to 2,424 million people, the total number of unemployed people exceeded 4.5 million.

According to the Minister of economic development Maxim Reshetnikov, during the validity of the restrictions because of the coronavirus in Russia suspended the work of 15 million people, 680 million of them eventually got under reduction. Reshetnikov described it as a “good” result, because the work in the end, only lost 4.5% of under restrictions. However, Rosstat by the end of may announced that unemployment in Russia reached a maximum in 2012. Without work there is 6.1% of the labour force. In April and may the number of unemployed increased by 1 million people.

At the end of March to support the unemployed citizens the maximum size of the unemployment benefit was increased to 12 thousand virtually any At the end of June by Vladimir Putin in his address to the citizens proposed to extend until the end of summer increased payments to the unemployed. For the same period extended the additional payments in the amount of 3 thousand virtually any. for the unemployed with children.