After a meeting of the national damage assessment commission created to quantify the losses and additional costs caused by the meteor, it was learned that this preliminary figure represents 2.2 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product.

‘The impact is concentrated in the infrastructure sector with approximately 220 million dollars distributed in energy, road networks, land transport, telecommunications and public infrastructure,’ explained the Minister of Finance and Public Credit, Iván Acosta.

He assured that in the productive sector there is still much work to be done, since visits to the farms must continue to define the damage in that area.

‘It is necessary to visit the farms of the entire sector of the route of the hurricane, of the storm, which has to do with the post-hurricane event such as floods, rains,’ the headline stressed.

In that sense, he indicated that the evaluations carried out so far quantify some 25.7 million dollars, fundamentally in agriculture and livestock.

Likewise, he made reference to the soon incorporation of other data when the extensive evaluation of all the municipalities of the route of the hurricane winds is finished, and also in the territories flooded by the rivers, among them El Rama, on the South Caribbean coast.

The government official alluded to the progress at the national level in the distribution of food packages and bin plans for families affected by the atmospheric phenomenon.

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