In June 2020 entities having 50 or more persons employed and participating in the monthly survey of production of industrial products, on voluntary basis additionally reported production of 1 842 143 face masks used in medicine and 10 965 412 other protective face masks.

In July 2020, there was an improvement in both current and future consumer sentiment moods compared to the previous month. The current consumer confidence indi-cator, synthetically describing the current trends in indi-vidual consumption, was -13.4a which was by 6.0 p.p. higher in relation to last month.

In July general business climate indicator is less negative than in June in most of presented kinds of activities. In information and communication sector it is even slightly positive, whereas the most pessimistic assessments are reported by companies operating in the field of accommodation and food service activities. Improvement is observed both in assessments (“diagnosis”) and expectations (“forecast”).

In June 2020 retail sales1 at constant prices were by 1.3% lower than the year before (against a growth of 3.7% in June 2019). Compared with May 2020 retail sales increased by 8.4%. In the period of January-June2 2020 retail sales y/y were by 5.2% lower (against a growth of 6.2% in 2019).

According to preliminary data construction and assembly production (in constant prices) carried out domestically by construction enterprises employing more than 9 persons was in June 2020 by 2.4% lower than a year before (against an decrease by 0.7% the year before) and by 12.5% higher compared with May 2020 (against an increase by 9.3% the year before).