Six regions, Kyiv city not ready to ease lockdown restrictions – Health Ministry
According to data provided by the Ukrainian Health Ministry, Volyn, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Lviv, Rivne, Chernivtsi regions and Kyiv city are not yet ready to ease lockdown restrictions.
The ministry explains that these regions have high incidence rate (total number of new COVID-19 cases in the past seven days per 100,000 population), high occupancy of beds in hospitals and low coverage of the population by PCR coronavirus testing.
There are no data on certain criteria from Crimea and Sevastopol.
As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers on May 20 decided to move to a so-called adaptive lockdown model from May 22 to June 22.
As of June 6, Ukraine had 26,514 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases. Some 550 new cases were confirmed over the past day.
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