Countries facing €44bn per month bill to respond to Covid-19 

The cost of the response in the health sector is likely to escalate if transmission increases - rising to as much as €53 bn over four weeks under a scenario where current restrictions are relaxed and transmission increases by 50%. File picture. 

It could cost low and middle-income countries more than €44bn over four weeks to provide a healthcare response to Covid-19, experts estimate.

New modelling research, published in The Lancet Global Health journal, suggests the equivalent of around €7.30 per person may be spent, assuming each country's reproductive number remains unchanged.