Additional strengthened quarantine restrictions began to operate to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Ukraine from 00:00 on Friday, January 8.
As reported, according to resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1236 of December 9, 2020, the lockdown will last until 00:00 on January 25, 2021.
During this period, the operation of cafes, restaurants and bars (except for delivery and takeaway), non-food stores, non-food markets, cinemas, fitness clubs, gyms, swimming pools, theaters and shopping centers is prohibited. Also, all educational institutions are placed on vacation, except for kindergartens and special educational institutions. In addition, all public events are prohibited.
During a lockdown, retail chains are allowed to sell food products, provided that at least 60% of their area is intended for food sales.
It is also allowed to trade in medicines, medical goods, hygiene products, communication equipment, veterinary drugs, feed, seeds, plant protection products, household chemicals and the printed press, trade in fuel.
According to decree No. 1236, trade in other groups of goods can only be carried out on condition of targeted delivery of orders.
It is also allowed “to carry out activities for the provision of financial services, activities of financial institutions and activities for the collection and transportation of currency values, the activities of postal operators, as well as medical practice, veterinary practice, the activities of gas stations (without food zones), activities for maintenance and repair vehicles, hairdressers and beauty salons by appointment.”
It is prohibited to conduct all mass (entertainment, sports, social, advertising and other) events (except for the organization of skiing leisure, but without the work of catering establishments and the sale of alcoholic beverages). At the same time, the ban also does not apply to the New Year and Christmas holidays (without concerts and fairs, including food fairs), official sports events included in the Unified Schedule of Physical Culture and Health and Sports Events of Ukraine and matches of team playing sports of professional sports clubs without spectators, provided that the participants of such events comply with the relevant sanitary and anti-epidemic measures and the implementation of mandatory daily monitoring of the health of the participants.
Also, the work of catering establishments and places for food in hotels is prohibited from 11:00 to 6:00 the next day, except for the provision of catering services in a hotel room at the request of customers.
Central and local executive authorities, other state bodies, from January 11 to January 22, 2021 inclusively, were instructed to establish a remote (home) work mode for employees, except for employees for whom it is impossible to establish a remote (home) work mode due to the nature of the performed tasks, and workers providing administrative services.
It is also recommended “to local government bodies, enterprises, institutions, organizations regardless of the form of ownership, except for institutions, regardless of the form of ownership, providing financial, banking and housing services, health protection, food supply, energy supply, water supply, communications, those that provide the functioning of the infrastructure of transport support, the sphere of defense, law and order and protection, critical infrastructure facilities, to establish a remote (home) work mode for workers in the period from January 11 to January 22, 2021, inclusively.”
Resolution No. 1236 also extended the quarantine regime in Ukraine until February 28, 2021. At the same time, planned hospitalizations in communal and state medical institutions are prohibited, the work of private clinics is not limited. Private medical institutions can carry out planned hospitalizations and operations in compliance with the necessary sanitary and epidemiological standards.
As mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko said earlier, during the lockdown, public transport of the capital, including the metro, will work, but urged to use public transport only when it is necessary.
Fomich LLC (Ivano-Frankivsk) plans to complete the construction of the Fomich Apartments complex in Bukovel (13 Urochysche Vyshnia [Cherry Stow], Polianytsia village, Ivano-Frankivsk region) by the end of January 2022.
As indicated in the presentation of the complex on the company’s website, the total area of the complex will be 4,800 square meters, of which 236 square meters are occupied by a bar and a swimming pool, and 430 square meters by recreation area. The project includes 54 rooms and parking for 58 cars.
According to Fomich Group, the cost per 1 square meter in the project will amount to $2,000. The company offers investors the conclusion of a management agreement for a period of five years.
The company is also completing the implementation of the Villas Fomich cottage complex project. According to the website, the complex is at the stage of commissioning and will be available for booking from February 1.
The cost of one turnkey cottage in the Villas Fomich project is $295,000, while the company guarantees a return on investment in seven years.
The Fomich Group also owns and manages the F&B Spa Resort.
Fomich LLC was registered in 2012. According to the Unified State Register, the founders of the company with a charter capital of UAH 1.5 million are Vasyl Yatsenyuk and Tetiana Krasiy.
Inspectors of the State Service of Ukraine for Transport Safety (Ukrtransbezpeka), together with the National Police, checked almost 700,000 vehicles in 2020, having drawn up more than 14,000 acts on violation of overall and weight parameters, and accrued more than UAH 137 million of overload fees.
The press service of the Ministry of Infrastructure reported on Tuesday with reference to Minister Vladyslav Krykliy, among the regions at the end of the year, most of the fees was charged in Odesa, Kherson and Kyiv regions.
“In 2020, we declared a battle to overloaded trucks, introduced enhanced weight control and continue work on reforming and digitizing Ukrtransbezpeka to eliminate the human factor. More than 40 WiM systems have been installed. And this year at least 100 WiM will work,” the press service said, citing Krykliy as saying.
According to him, full automation and digitalization of all processes to eliminate the human factor remains the main goal of the ministry in reforming Ukrtransbezpeka. But for the full-fledged launch of the automatic weight control system in Ukraine, the soonest adoption of bills No. 3742 and No. 3743 by MPs is necessary.
“Now the Verkhovna Rada is considering at the second reading bill No. 3743, which provides for the refusal of fare and transfer of responsibility for violation of the overall and weight standards in the plane of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses. This will simplify the collection procedure and increase the percentage of paid fines,” Head of Ukrtransbezpeka Yehor Prokopchuk said.
Pivdenny Mining and Processing Plant (Pivdenny GOK, Dnipropetrovsk region) in 2020 increased the output of iron ore concentrate by 4.4% compared to the previous year, to 12.798 million tonnes.
According to the company, no sinter was produced last year.
In December, the plant produced 1.064 million tonnes of iron ore concentrate, which is 10.2% more than in December 2019.
Pivdenny Mining and Processing Plant is one of the main producers of iron ore raw materials in Ukraine, concentrate and sinter. It is engaged in the extraction and enrichment of ferruginous quartzites to obtain iron ore concentrate with an iron content of 67.7%, as well as blast furnace sinter with an iron content of 58.18%.
The plant is controlled by the Metinvest Group and Lanebrook Ltd. (the majority shareholder of the Evraz Group), which at the end of 2007 acquired 50% of Pivdenny GOK shares from the Privat Group (Dnipro).
International airport Lviv in 2020 reduced passenger traffic to 878,500 people, which is 60% less than in 2019 (2.218 million people).
The relevant information was provided to Interfax-Ukraine by the press service of the airport.
According to its data, in December 2020 the passenger traffic amounted to 47,900 people (171,900 in December 2019).
In general, in the past year the number of arrival/departure flights from the airport was 9,916 (746 in December 2020), which is 47.4% less than a year earlier – 18,982 (1,441 in December 2019).
At the same time, as noted at the airport, cargo traffic in 2020 grew by 2.2 times, to 2,282 tonnes (257.7 tonnes in December 2020). In 2019, this figure was 1,006 tonnes (147.3 tonnes in December 2019).
According to the press service of the airport, it ended 2020 without losses.
As of January 4, 2021, Ukrtelecom has already installed 45 UTrecharge charging stations for electric transport out of 50 provided in the pilot project in Kyiv and the suburbs.
According to the press service of the company, in Kyiv region the stations have already been installed in Vyshgorod (2 Shevchenko Square), Irpin (120a Severynivska Street), Boryspil (86a Kyivsky Shliakh Street), Vorzel (25 Kurortna Street), and Bucha (22 Ostrovskoho Street).
“The introduction of the service is part of Ukrtelecom’s activities for the efficient use of the company’s resources released as a result of technical re-equipment and modernization of the telecoms infrastructure. Ukrtelecom considers this business area to be promising, including in terms of supporting technologies that do not harm the environment,” the report says.
Ukrtelecom began to provide the service of charging electric vehicles at its own UTrecharge charging stations from January 1, 2021.
