The introduction of immune passports in Ukraine is not excluded, but it is necessary to calculate why and how it will be carried out, because not all Ukrainians will be able to be vaccinated, said Ukrainian Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov.
“Regarding immune passports, this is a very serious and very delicate discussion. There are international vaccination certificates in the world. They were used, for example, for vaccinations against yellow fever. I do not exclude that something like this could happen. We must not forget that we have a category of citizens who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons. This is at least allergic reactions from any vaccine. This can have serious consequences for humans,” he said in the air of the Ukraine 24 TV channel.
He also noted that an immune passport will not eliminate all problems.
“Probably, there may be some restrictions. This is a kind of fantasy, when you come to some country and you neither go through self-isolation regime, nor take a test, and if you don’t have immune passport, then you should pass a test. Here exists a discriminatory issue,” added Stepanov.
An immune passport is a document confirming that a person is not contagious with a coronavirus due to the immunity he has received. The introduction of such a document is being discussed in some countries.
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Ookla (the United States), the developer of Speedtest service, has recognized Vodafone Ukraine as the mobile network operator with the highest average mobile Internet speed in Ukraine in July-December 2020.
Such data were released during an online conference on Thursday.
“Now we have already recorded almost 5 million Ukrainians who have tested Internet services on this platform. This is an extraordinary figure in scale. Today we are here to welcome the fastest mobile Internet in Ukraine – Vodafone Ukraine,” the sales director at Ookla said during the conference.
According to him, in Q3-Q4 2020, Vodafone Ukraine reached the Speed Score of 30.85 (in 2019 it was 17.93). The average download speed was 29.38 Mbps, upload – 14.1 Mbps (in 2019 it was 19.37 Mbps and 11.16 Mbps, respectively).
He also said that in 2020, Ukraine climbed one position in the global ranking in terms of Internet connection speed, being 86th.
Ookla is a leader in fixed and mobile internet speed testing and analysis. According to the company, users run more than 10 million tests on the application every day.
The main pipe enterprises of Ukraine in 2020 reduced the production of pipes from ferrous metals, according to recent data, by 16.3% compared to the previous year, to 854,000 tonnes, including 71,000 tonnes produced in December.
As the Ukrtruboprom association told Interfax-Ukraine, in particular, the enterprises of the association last year reduced the production of pipes by 24.8%, to 538,000 tonnes, including 44,000 tonnes produced in December.
At the same time, according to preliminary data, the output of pipes at Interpipe Nyzhniodniprovsky Pipe Rolling Plant for the specified period fell by 33.7%, to 145,000 tonnes (in December it was 15,300 tonnes), at Interpipe Novomoskovsk Pipe Plant by 23.9%, to 78,600 tonnes (4,600 tonnes). Interpipe Niko Tube cut production by 16.5%, to 293,700 tonnes (22,200 tonnes).
Dnipropetrovsk Pipe Plant produced 300 tonnes of pipes, while in 2019 it produced 17,600 tonnes of these products. Centravis cut production by 9.3%, to 19,050 tonnes of stainless pipes (1,600 tonnes).
Trubostal plant reduced its output by 42.9%, to 1,600 tonnes of pipes (100 tonnes).
Mariupol Illich Iron and Steel Works, which is not included in the association Ukrtruboprom, reduced pipe production by 4.2%, to 151,600 tonnes (in December it was 12,300 tonnes), while Kominmet increased by 12.2%, to 164,600 tonnes (14,900 tonnes).
Earlier, Ukrtruboprom said that in 2019 Ukraine reduced the production of pipes by 9.1% compared with 2018, to 1.002 million tonnes. Including the enterprises of the association reduced the production of pipes by 10.2%, to 715,100 tonnes.
Budhouse Group investment and development group of companies (BHG, Kyiv) in 2020 reduced the turnover in its shopping and entertainment centers Fabrika (Kherson), Liubava (Cherkasy) and Forum Lviv (Lviv) by 11%, while in 2019 the increase was 12.8%, the company’s press service said on Thursday.
“Compared to 2020, the turnover of shopping centers in hryvnias has significantly decreased. If in 2018 the average growth was 23.3%, and in 2019 it amounted to 12.8%, then in 2020, for obvious reasons, this figure decreased by 11%. The total turnover of Budhouse Group shopping centers in 2020 amounted to about UAH 6.8 billion,” the developer’s press service said.
According to it, the smallest drop in trade turnover (by 2.6%) was recorded in the Liubava shopping and entertainment center.
According to the group, traffic to shopping centers in 2020 decreased by 28% compared to the previous year, to 19.4 million people. In addition, visitors spent 16% less time in the malls due to restrictions on the operation of entertainment zones.
The average vacancy rate for the group’s malls was 0.6% over the year, with the lowest rate (0.3%) recorded in the Forum Lviv mall. The company also signed 30 new lease agreements for premises with a total area of 6,500 square meters versus 40 contracts for 3,100 square meters in 2019.
The rotation of tenants decreased compared to 2019 and was mainly due to the difficult economic situation. The largest transactions were concluded with LC Waikiki and Budynok Ihrashok in the Liubava shopping and entertainment center.
Budhouse Group LLC was established in 2006. It is the owner and developer of commercial, office, hotel and residential real estate in Kyiv, Lviv, Cherkasy, Kherson, Odesa, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhia.
The charter capital is UAH 95.1 million.
