BEIJING, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Finance (MOF) on Monday allocated 4.4 billion yuan (about 640 million U.S. dollars) to support the battle across the country against the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).
It included an additional 500-million-yuan fund for central China's Hubei Province, which was hit hard by the novel coronavirus outbreak, the ministry said Tuesday on its website.
The MOF allocated 1 billion yuan to Hubei on Thursday to support the coronavirus prevention and control work in the province.
