The Ukrainian authorities will again close the country to strict quarantine due to the spread of the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus. The dates for the lockdown have already been agreed, reports Segodnya, citing government sources.
Restrictions will be introduced for more than three weeks, from December 23 to January 15. The interlocutor of the edition in the Cabinet of Ministers clarified that a proposal for a two-week lockdown was submitted for consideration, but it was rejected.
The source also clarified what the words of the head of the Servant of the People faction mean in Verkhovna Rada David Arakhamia about “intellectual” quarantine. In his opinion, we are talking about the fact that the authorities will quickly respond to changes in the situation with the spread of the virus and change restrictive measures, as well as, probably, measures to support the population.
spoke about the need to immediately impose a hard lockdown three to four weeks earlier chapter MIA Ukraine Arsen Avakov . On November 11, the Ukrainian authorities decided to abandon the adaptive quarantine and introduce a weekend quarantine, which operates from 00:00 Saturday to 00:00 Monday. This is due to the worsening epidemiological situation.
This measure did not help , and already on November 26, another anti-record incidence: 15331 new cases of infection per day. In total, according to Ministry of Health as of November 30, 375,149 patients with COVID-2019 have now been recorded in the country, 9,946 cases have been detected in the last 24 hours, more than a thousand people have been hospitalized. Over the entire period of the coronavirus epidemic in Ukraine, more than 700 thousand people have been infected.