The Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee will not resume discussion on 2021 draft budget as Committee’s chairperson Timcho Mucunski announced on Sunday that he has tested positive for COVID-19.

Early on Monday, employees of the Committee and some of the MPs, who were in contact with Mucunski, got tested for COVID-19 by the medial teams of the Institute for Public Health, parliament said in a press release.

The Parliament’s Finance and Budget Committee has been discussing amendments to the 2021 draft budget submitted by MP groups.