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New crown record, Venetian advice on KSU, early symptom of COVID, photos from Mars. Korrespondent.net highlights yesterday’s major events.
Kiev got stuck in traffic jams, hundreds of accidents due to ice
The rain came to Kiev in the form of frost, and the city came to a standstill: the roads were covered with a crust of ice. The townspeople complain that it is almost impossible to walk the streets. Collapse on the roads: due to icy conditions in the capital, the number of accidents increased.
More than 340 units of special equipment were taken to the streets of the capital. But they did not have time to process the road with anti-icing agents, as Kiev stopped at the traffic jams. The entrances to the city are also blocked.
Why was the closure postponed?
In determining January 8 as the date for the start of the enhanced quarantine, the government was guided by the forecasts of analysts at the NSDC and the Ministry of Health.
It was decided to postpone the introduction of the blockade at the beginning of January because the authorities could not prohibit family members from gathering on holidays, said, in turn, the country’s chief health doctor, Viktor Lyashko.
The Venetian solution
The Venice Commission has published urgent conclusions on anti-corruption mechanisms in accordance with the decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine.
The experts legitimately ask the Ukrainian authorities to respect the court, but admit that the CCU’s decision of October 27 lacks a clear reasoning, does not have a solid foundation in international law “and may have been clouded by a serious error. of procedure: the unresolved problem of the conflict of interests of some judges “.
In the news, the Venice Commission gave its opinion on the CCU on the solutions proposed by the Venice Commission.
New symptom of COVID-19
One of the indicative symptoms of early COVID-19 is eye pain, scientists from the University of England Ruskin found.
In particular, the researchers interviewed patients with confirmed coronavirus and compiled a list of the first symptoms of the disease. Among the 83 survey participants, 90 percent of people reported fatigue, 76 percent – fever, 70 percent – loss of smell and taste, 66 percent – dry cough.
At the same time, 81 percent of people indicated they had eye problems at an early stage of COVID-19. Of these, 18 percent of those surveyed had photophobia or hypersensitivity, 17 percent had itchy eyes, and 16 percent had eye pain. Most of the participants reported having these symptoms for about two weeks.
There can be no Norman reunion
There are no prerequisites for holding a meeting of the leaders of the Normandy format, not only this year, but also next, said the head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group Leonid Kravchuk.
“So far, I don’t see (the prerequisites) because Russia is raising the same issue: formally says yes, yes, and advisers meet, say something. But in fact, now Russia says” no need to meet in the Normandy format because the tasks of the previous Normandy meeting on December 9 have not been fulfilled, “Kravchuk noted.
In Ukraine, the record of hospitalizations of patients with COVID
In Ukraine, 13,371 new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus were recorded per day, which is significantly higher than yesterday’s figure. At the same time, a record number of patients were hospitalized: 2993 people, 266 patients died, this is ten less than the anti-registration of the previous day.
Train tickets on the rise
Ukrzaliznytsia plans to increase rates for passenger transport on a monthly basis starting in the spring. This is set out in the company’s financial plan for 2021.
“In 2021, the monthly indexation of tariffs for passenger transport in domestic traffic from March 1 is forecast by two percent. Additional revenue will amount to 557.9 million hryvnia,” the document says.
Fake oil
The Antitrust Committee of Ukraine fined six dairy producers worth millions of hryvnias for adding vegetable fats and blends of unknown origin to products labeled “butter” and “cheese”.
The Antitrust Committee has fined the following companies that misled consumers:
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Starokonstantinovskiy dairy plant (Khmelnytsky region). The amount of the fine is 84.9 million UAH.
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Derazhnyanskiy Dairy Plant (Khmelnytsky region) – 9.5 million UAH
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Vivaldi D company (Dnipropetrovsk region) – UAH 6.9 million
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Inter-mol company (Dnipropetrovsk region) – UAH 4 million
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OMPK Slavia (Sumy region) – 3.5 million UAH
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Iva art company (Ivano-Frankivsk region): 2.8 million UAH
Mysterious monoliths are now in Ukraine
A mysterious monolith appeared on Kiev Castle Hill. Judging from the pictures, the three-sided monolith is made of brushed metal. Who installed it and for what purpose is still unknown. In addition, a similar object was observed in a landfill in Poltava.
The first monolith appeared in the Utah desert and disappeared a few days later. Later, a similar object was found in northern Romania. He disappeared four days later.
The third monolith ended up in California, but suffered a sad fate: the youth overturned the obelisk and erected a cross in its place.
The most watched TV shows of 2020
The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), the world’s largest movie database, has ranked in the top ten feature series that have become the most popular among users in 2020. It is based on data visits to TV series pages on the website and in the service application in recent months.
New photos of Mars
A NASA employee has released new photographs of the surface of Mars taken by the Curiosity rover. The images were taken at Martian Gale crater, named for astronomer Walter Frederick Gale.
Main colors of 2021
Experts at the American Pantone Color Institute have identified two main colors for 2021. These are dark gray 17-5104 Ultimate Gray and vibrant yellow 13-0647 Illuminating.
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