According to the Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Finance, Colm Imbert, the country has spent over $5 billion on COVID-19 relief so far.
“We have crossed the $5 billion mark and we intend to provide as much relief as we can. And certainly, in the next budget, there will be an amount for COVID relief, residual COVID relief going forward into 2022,” T&T’s Finance Minister said.
About $75 million out of that sum has been spent so far to procure vaccines. This was disclosed by Imbert as he dismissed rumours that the T&T Government sought loans to buy doses.
Since the relief grant was restarted in May 2021, he confirmed about $12 million had been paid out to over 4,000 applicants.
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