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A three-week lockdown in Ukraine is needed to balance the load on the medical system during a period of increasing influenza incidence, explained Ukraine’s Health Minister Maxim Stepanov.
Ukraine needs a three-week lockdown to help balance the increase in coronavirus incidence through February. This was stated by the Minister of Health of Ukraine, Maxim Stepanov, on the air of “Freedom of expression” on ICTV.
“We need a three-week blockade. Why a three-week blockade? It is also very important. Because apart from a situation that is exclusively related to COVID-19we still have incidence of seasonal influenza. In late January – early February we will have an increase in influenza. And our people also need to be hospitalized, they also have pneumonia. It is very important to us that we approach February not with a large increase in COVID-19 cases, but for this to balance with the numbers we expect for influenza, “said Stepanov.
On November 11, Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers introduced a “weekend quarantine” in addition to other restrictive measures. For three weekends (November 14-15, November 21-22 and 28-29), non-food stores and entertainment establishments must be closed, catering establishments can only operate takeout.
In Ukraine, in recent days, the daily incidence of COVID-19 was recorded at a level of more than 16 thousand patients per day: on the morning of November 28, 16,294 new cases were detected in Ukraine, from November 26 to 16,218. In the country, 67 to 72 thousand were carried out daily. coronavirus testing. On November 29, when 49 thousand tests were carried out, the country registered a decrease in the number of cases to 12,978 new cases per day. After the weekend, 9,946 cases were confirmed.
The total number of cases in Ukraine exceeded 732 thousand, 12.3 thousand patients died, recovered more 345 Pigcyon
On November 25, it became known that the Cabinet of Ministers and the Office of the President of Ukraine are considering the possibility of introducing a total blockade. In an interview with GORDON editor-in-chief Ales Batsman, the deputy director of the Office of the President, Kirill Tymoshenko, said the decision to impose a strict quarantine could be made based on an analysis of the effectiveness of the weekend quarantine. .
According to a source from Interfax-Ukraine, Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers is considering four options to introduce a strict quarantine. One of the possible options is the introduction of a lockdown from December 24 to January 15. The source pointed out that the issue of the transportation operation during the blockade is also being discussed, including with local authorities.
