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On October 9, Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers allowed laboratory centers to involve private clinics in COVID-19 testing. The government has allocated an additional 100 million UAH for this.
Ukraine’s Health Minister Maxim Stepanov said private laboratories will not test “people on the street” for coronavirus for free. He said this in a briefing on October 10. The press conference was broadcast on the government’s YouTube channel.
“We will contract through our laboratory centers the capacities of private laboratories to carry out tests. That is, our mobile or hospital team, which performs the sampling of a person, will be transferred to private laboratories, which will perform the tests themselves on the appropriate laboratory equipment. This does not mean that now private laboratories will start doing these tests for people on the street. We just won’t be able to control this, “Stepanov said.
On October 9, the Cabinet of Ministers allocated 100 million UAH to the Ministry of Health for the purchase of PCR testing services in health institutions, regardless of the form of ownership.
An outbreak of coronavirus infection began in late 2019 in China. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic.
On the morning of October 10, 36.8 million cases of COVID-19 coronavirus infection were recorded in the world, reports Johns Hopkins University. The total number of victims of the pandemic reached 1.07 million and 25.6 million people have already recovered.
In Ukraine, more than 256 thousand people were infected with the coronavirus, of which 4,887 people died, 112,570 recovered.
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