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On Monday, November 9, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tested positive for Covid-19.
The coronavirus has reached the top of Ukrainian politics. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the head of his office, Andriy Yermak, tested positive for Covid.
Zelensky and Yermak self-isolate, but promise to keep working.
Correspondent.net He discovered how the government would be built under the new conditions.
President’s fortune
Zelenskiy reported that her temperature now remains at 37.5 degrees and she is generally feeling fine.
According to the OP, the president will continue to serve remotely and in isolation.
Yermak says he feels good too and continues to work remotely.
“For this week a video meeting of the advisors to the leaders of the Normandy format is scheduled. This is one of my highest priorities, so there is no time to get sick. If negotiations do not take place this week, it is definitely not my fault, “Yermak said.
Previously, Yermak MPs Yulia Kovaliv and Andrei Smirnov had been ill with coronavirus. Kovaliv has already passed a negative test for Covid.
I wanted to get infected
In the spring, the president said he specifically wanted to get infected with the coronavirus to go through this test on his own.
“I wanted to go through this stage by myself. To make things easier for people. I suggested to our people:” Come on, I’ll get sick, we will immediately isolate myself in Bankova. And I will live it normally. “So that people understand that this is scary, you can get sick, you feel bad. And I will let it pass myself, I will show it,” said the president.
As a result, they decided to abandon the idea: “They decided it was too much, that it was too much,” Zelensky recalled.
In June, the president’s wife, Elena Zelenskaya, and the youngest son, Kirill, fell ill with coronavirus. The first lady was hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia and the son suffered the disease more easily, without complications.
In late October, the coronavirus was found in Polish President Andrzej Duda. Before that, he met with Zelensky.
Who else is sick
Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko tested positive for COVID-19. While on sick leave, the minister’s duties are entrusted to his first deputy, Denis Ulyutin. At the same time, Sergei Marchenko is remotely involved in self-isolation in the work processes and leadership of the ministry.
Nikolaev Mayor Alexander Senkevich also fell ill with COVID-19.
In addition, the head of the Rivne Regional State Administration, Vitaly Koval, said that he had received a positive PCR test for the coronavirus.
Weekend quarantine
The Ministry of Health will propose to the Cabinet of Ministers to impose strict quarantine on weekends, so that only grocery stores, pharmacies and veterinary pharmacies, transportation and gas stations will operate on Saturdays and Sundays in order to “break the chain” of transmission of the COVID-19.
The Health Ministry hopes that this will minimize the number of person-to-person contacts, that contacts will be reduced to the family circle, and this, in turn, will “break the wave” of spread of the coronavirus disease.
Thus, the Ministry of Health hopes to avoid a total “blockade”, which was repeated by some European countries.
Zelenskiy hopes the weekend quarantine will only work for a few weeks and help avoid a hard lockdown.
But the Ministry of Culture opposed the weekend quarantine. They believe that such a quarantine will be catastrophic for cultural institutions and creative industries.
Problems in hospitals
Starting from November 9, Ukrainian hospitals will not carry out the planned operations, but will only move to the treatment of urgent patients and patients with COVID-19.
“Since Monday, all planned operations and planned hospitalizations are prohibited in our hospitals, hospitals only accept urgent patients and only patients with coronavirus disease. The situation is extremely tense. The situation is extremely tense not only in Ukraine,” said Chief Medical Officer Viktor Lyashko.
