The International Monetary Fund has approved a 51.6 million euro ($56.06 million) loan for Kosovo to tackle the economic crisis caused by the new coronavirus and address urgent balance of payments issues, the international lender said.
“The economy is expected to contract by 5% in 2020 as tourism receipts, remittances, exports of goods, and FDI will decrease due to travel restrictions and the effect of COVID-19 in trading partners and remittance-originating countries,” the IMF said in a statement.The government said it will inject some 180 million euros into the roughly 8-billion-euro economy to help the private sector cope with the crisis.
As of late on Friday some 250 people were infected with the coronavirus in Kosovo, including seven deaths.
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