MOSCOW – The New Development Bank will allocate up to $15 billion for loans to help the so-called BRICS nations - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - boost their economies amid the coronavirus pandemic, Russia's foreign minister said Tuesday. “We believe that it should become a very good reinforcement for our countries' economies when they're coming out of the crisis stage and resume economic operations,” Sergey Lavrov told reporters after a meeting of BRICS foreign ministers dedicated to the virus outbreak.
The pandemic has dealt a shock to the global economy, with governments all over the world taking measures to soften the blow.