The planned increase in expenditure is only possible because donors have pledged additional money for the response to Covid-19. The government had requested 700 million US dollars, said Rosario, "with the goal of mobilising resources to guarantee prevention and treatment of Covid-19, to ensure social protection, to compensate for the loss of state revenue, and to help the business sector recover from the effects of the pandemic".

[...] the number of beneficiaries from the government's social protection programmes will rise from the 608,000 envisaged in the April budget to over a million. Additional allowances will be paid to key public companies, including Mozambique Airlines (LAM), Airports of Mozambique, and the municipal transport companies for the services they are providing during the pandemic.

Capital expenditure rises from the 70.9 billion meticais envisaged in April to 90.5 billion. Maleiane said this will pay for the construction and rehabilitation of 11 Covid-19 isolation wards (one for each province), and for 52 water supply systems.