Results 24.03: Record mortality and a major fire

During the day in Ukraine, 342 people died from coronavirus; in Transcarpathia, two apartment buildings caught fire. Korrespondent.net highlights yesterday’s major events.

An anti-record for the number of COVID deaths recorded in Ukraine

During the day, 342 residents of Ukraine died from the coronavirus, which is a record number since the start of the pandemic. The total number of fatal COVID cases is 30,773. At the same time, in the country as a whole, 1,579,906 people have been infected by coronavirus, of which 1,276,272 have already recovered. During the day 14,174 infected were identified.

In the Transcarpathian region, there was a large fire in two houses.

In Transcarpathia, in the town of Tereblya, a large fire engulfed two apartment buildings that, according to media reports, were built for displaced people. The area of ​​the fire was 1200 square meters. Previously, there were no casualties.

Pharmacy chemist dies in military hospital after coronavirus vaccination

In Ukraine, the second death was recorded after vaccination against the coronavirus with the drug Covishield / AstraZeneca – the doctors of the city clinical hospital No. 3 in the city of Chernivtsi declared the death of a pharmacist in a military hospital. The cause of death is indicated as an acute cerebral stroke.

The president enforced two decisions of the NSDC

The Head of State, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, put into effect the NSDC decision of March 11 on the return of the Motor Sich company to state ownership, as well as the Council decision on the strategy for the unemployment and reintegration of annexed Crimea .

Filatov was the first mayor of Ukraine to be vaccinated against the coronavirus

Dnipro City Council Chief Boris Filatov publicly received the first dose of the COVID vaccine. He pointed out that it is necessary to be vaccinated and that doctors, and not the “leaders of public opinion”, are obliged to talk about vaccination.

Meanwhile, in Ukraine 137,026 citizens received vaccines against COVID-19, of which 15,097 were received the day before, which is a record since the start of the vaccination campaign.

RRB denounced suspicion of high treason to Azarov

The State Bureau of Investigation announced suspicions of treason to former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov for agreeing to the Kharkiv accords. According to the RRB, on April 20, 2010 Azarov accepted the conditions imposed by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to extend the stay of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Ukraine for 25 years.

Cabinet approved the spring draft number

The government approved the number of recruits for urgent military service in April-June in the amount of 14,246 people: 6.5 thousand – in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, 4646 – in the National Guard, 2.5 thousand – in the State Border Service and 600 – in the State Service of Special Transport.

Canada has added nine Russian citizens to the sanctions list

For violation of human rights in Russia, Canada imposed sanctions against nine Russian officials, including the head of the FSB of the Russian Federation, the director of the FSIN, the attorney general of the Russian Federation, the first deputy head of the presidential administration, two deputy defense ministers, the head of the presidential department of internal policy, the presidential envoy to the Federal District of Siberia and the director of the Russian Guard.

A new rector of KNU named Shevchenko

Philosophy candidate, Professor Vladimir Bugrov was elected rector of the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev. In the second round of the elections, he obtained 74% of the votes against 12.39% of his opponent – Doctor of Economics, Professor, Vice-Rector for Scientific and Pedagogical Work of KNU Alexander Rozhko.

North Korea launches ballistic missiles for the first time in a year

The DPRK authorities fired two ballistic missiles, one of which fell into the Sea of ​​Japan. In this regard, the Japanese government called an emergency meeting of the Security Council. According to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Sugi, these are the first ballistic missile launches since March 29 last year.

Olympic torch relay kicks off in Japan

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay has started at the J-Village soccer training center in Fukushima, Japan. The first of some 10,000 runners to participate in the relay is 34-year-old footballer Azusa Iwashimizu.

The lit Olympic torch will travel through Japan’s 47 prefectures in 121 days and will be delivered on July 23, the start of the Olympic Games, in Tokyo.

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