Allowances to doctors fully paid in 14 regions

Fourteen regions in Ukraine have already paid all allowances of up to 300% for March to doctors working with patients with the coronavirus COVID-19.

Representatives of the Health Ministry stated this at a traditional meeting chaired by Volodymyr Zelensky on preventing the coronavirus spread, the president’s press service reported on Monday.

"Fourteen regions have already fully paid allowances for March to doctors working with patients with COVID-19, other regions will get payments in the coming days. In addition, regions have started paying allowances for April," reads the statement.

As Ukrinform reported, Ukraine confirmed 18,616 cases of the coronavirus COVID-19 as of May 18, including 325 new infections in the previous day.

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