The Verkhovna Rada has adopted a law on state registration of human genomic information.
The adoption of the relevant bill No. 4265 was generally supported by 256 people’s deputies at the plenary session on Saturday, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a member of the Holos faction, said on his Telegram channel.
The document provides for the regulation of both mandatory state and voluntary registration of human genomic information.
The law clearly defines the categories of persons subject to mandatory registration. We are talking about persons brought to criminal responsibility for committing intentional crimes against life, health, sexual freedom, sexual inviolability of a person, in respect of which a measure of restraint has been chosen; on persons who have committed crimes against life, health, sexual freedom, sexual inviolability of a person, to whom medical measures have been applied by a court decision.
The norms of the law also apply to persons convicted of committing intentional crimes against life, health, sexual freedom, sexual inviolability of the person; convicted and serving a sentence of imprisonment or having an unexpunged or outstanding conviction for committing grave or especially grave crimes, as well as all categories of crimes against sexual freedom and sexual inviolability.
In addition, unidentified corpses, missing persons, as well as close relatives of missing persons are subject to mandatory registration.
Twitter management intends to sue Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who announced his refusal to buy the social network, Bret Taylor, chairman of the company’s board of directors, said.
“Twitter’s board of directors is committed to closing the deal at the price and terms agreed with Mr. Musk and plans to take legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware court,” Taylor tweeted.
Musk previously notified Twitter that he was pulling out of the purchase deal. “Mr. Musk is terminating the Merger Agreement because Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of the Agreement,” a spokesman for the company said in a letter.
The majority of medical experts, who had fled abroad due to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine, have come back and continue to work, practitioners and experts in the sphere of medicine said during a roundtable discussion hosted by the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency on Thursday.
“For the moment, 98% of personnel are in place. Some of them left for western Ukraine or abroad in the first months of the war, however, today almost all of them have come back and continue to work,” Head of the Department of Cardiometabolic Diseases of the Clinic for Adults of the State Institution “Center for Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine,” PhD in Medical Sciences Yevhen Marushko said.
“Speaking about the personnel of the Filatov Institute, almost none of our employees left. Some 99% of our personnel stay here. There is a shortage of specialists in very specific profiles as there are few of them all over the country. If specialists, whom we already lack, leave, this has a negative impact on the level of medical assistance,” ophthalmologist of the highest category, head of the department of inflammatory pathologies of the eye and microsurgical treatment of their consequences at state institution “Filatov Institute of Eye Diseases and Tissue Therapy of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine” Oleksandra Zborovska said.
In turn, Business Development Director of ADONIS medical group of companies Svitlana Lonska said that the majority of the personnel of private medical institutions have returned, while those who are abroad also plan to come back soon.
Despite the fact that a maternity hospital was destroyed during large-scale military operations in Kyiv region, the doctors did not suspend their work and had to deliver babies under emergency conditions, she stressed.
At the same time, Head of the Department of Nephrology and Renal Replacement Therapy of the National University of Health Protection, owner of the Nephrology Clinic, Professor Dmytro Ivanov noted that the doctors and senior staff, who have returned to Ukraine, thus proved the level of their reliability.
“In the first two months we lost more than 60% of doctors and around 75% nurses in Kyiv in the first two months. Almost no medical personnel remained in the districts of Ukraine where military operations were conducted. Around 90% of medical staff have returned as of today. I think this could be considered a criteria of reliability of doctors and senior staff, for example, heads of departments and chief doctors,” Ivanov said.
Chief Physician of the National Cancer Institute, PhD in Medical Sciences Andriy Beznosenko said that the patient flow significantly reduced at the National Center Institute in the first month of the war.
“We received 150 patients during the first month of the war, while last year we received 2,700 patients during the same period of time,” he said.
The expert also noted that the specialists of the National Cancer Institute do the utmost to monitor the situation with the oncology centers in the temporarily occupied territories.
“Today, Kherson, Melitopol, Mariupol oncology centers and the one in Krasnyi Luch are under occupation. They lack personnel and there are patients there. But there are no medicines for treatment and we are unable to deliver them,” Beznosenko said.
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Almost a billion Muslims of the world celebrate this Saturday the main Islamic holiday – the Day of Sacrifice, also known as Eid al-Adha and Eid al-Adha.
Every Muslim who has the means to do so is obliged to sacrifice an animal, and one person can be limited to a sheep, and one head of cattle is enough for a group of up to ten adherents of Islam. In this case, the animal must be quite young and without physical defects. Two-thirds of the meat should be distributed to the poor, the rest goes to the festive meal of the family.
The sacrifice is made by Muslims in memory of how the prophet Ibrahim was ready to sacrifice his son Ismail to the Almighty in order to prove devotion to God. However, the Almighty, having tested Ibrahim, stopped the hand raised above his son and sent Ibrahim a white lamb, which was sacrificed.
During the days of Eid al-Adha, it is customary to wear new or at least better clothes, go to visit, give gifts and visit the graves of loved ones.
In Ukraine on July 10, without precipitation at night, intermittent rain in places during the day, a thunderstorm, the Ukrhydrometeorological center reported.
The wind is predominantly northwest, 5-10 m/s. The temperature at night is 14-19°, during the day 24-29°, in the eastern regions up to 32°; in the western regions at night 10-15°, during the day 19-24°.
In Kyiv on Sunday night no precipitation, intermittent rain in places in the daytime. Wind northwest, 5-10 m/s. The temperature at night is 15-17°, during the day it is about 25°.
According to the Central Geophysical Observatory. Boris Sreznevsky in Kyiv on July 10, the highest temperature during the day was 36.4 in 1885, the lowest at night was 6.4 in 1887.
On Monday, July 11, in Ukraine, small, in the eastern and northeastern regions, moderate intermittent rains, thunderstorms.
The wind is western, northwestern (southeastern in the eastern part of the country), 5-10 m/s.
The temperature in the western regions is 7-12° at night, 16-21° during the day; in the rest of the territory at night 12-17°, in the south and east in some places up to 21°, in the daytime 20-25°, in the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine 24-29°.
Light rain in Kyiv on Sunday. Wind north, northwest, 5-10 m/s. Temperature at night 14-16°; daytime 21-23°.
On July 9, at 8 o’clock, the water temperature in the Black and Azov Seas was 20-27 °, in the Dnieper, according to the Kyiv hydrological post, 23 °.
A large Ukrainian manufacturer of feed for cats and dogs, Kormotech LLC (Prylbychi village, Lviv region), has accumulated stocks of finished products in Poland for four weeks of work, and also signed contracts for feed production in the EU in case its factories stop in Ukraine.
Such measures allow the company to guarantee the continuity of product supplies to European partners in the context of the war in Ukraine, its CEO Rostyslav Vovk said at the Forbes online conference Building Together on Friday.
According to the head, Kormotech opened a logistics center in Poland, where it keeps a stock of products corresponding to four weeks of operation of the company’s two factories located in the western regions of Ukraine – the production time and delivery to a European buyer under normal conditions. This allows “covering” orders from the EU with finished products for a month, while the company solves possible problems with production or logistics.
Vovk also emphasized that his company can guarantee the supply of dry pet food to Europeans from its factories in Ukraine even if production in the country stops due to factors caused by the Russian invasion. To do this, at the beginning of the war, Kormotech signed an agreement with its European partners for production of feed under the Kormotech brand at third-party enterprises in the EU.
“We gave our partners two options: we will work in Ukraine until the very end. As long as we can produce feed in Ukraine, we will produce it. If we have any difficulties or problems, you will receive a similar product from our European partners next month” Vovk said.
He clarified that doing business in Europe usually does not bring super profits, but it also allows for stable development over a long period.
“If you are planning to develop your business in Europe, you need to be clear that this is a long-term business – it can take months or years to sign a contract, and there are no super profits if you do not have a unique or monopoly product. On the other hand, you have a guarantee for many years that you will gradually grow and be able to plan your business processes,” the CEO of Kormotech said.
Kormotech LLC is a leading Ukrainian manufacturer of feed for cats and dogs. The company exports products to 32 countries, including the USA, UK, Germany, France, Finland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Iran and Chile.
