Photo: korrespondent.net Over half of the new construction had an estimated 41.6% of the total volume of produced construction products

However, the decline of production in construction is not so significant compared to other industries.

Coronavirus crisis negatively affected the construction industry. On Friday, August 7, said the Minister of development of communities and territories Alexey Chernyshev during the “round table” for the Day of Builder.

“We analyzed the results from the point of view of construction work, the volume taken by the object. So we see that there are, according to the results of the first half drop by more than 10% on execution of construction works”, – he said.

According to the Minister, as a result of decreased average monthly wage of construction workers, increased wage arrears.

However, the decline of production in construction is not so significant compared to other industries, said Chernyshev. According to him, due to the fact that the government since the beginning of coronaries continued program major construction and other projects.

As previously reported, Ukraine has slowed the rate of decline in construction volumes. In January-June the decline in the construction industry amounted to 5.5% compared to 7.1% in January-may.

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