Ukraine has registered a Chinese vaccine against COVID-19, CoronaVac made by Sinovac Biotech Ltd, its authorized Ukrainian representative, the Kyiv-based Lekhim told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.
Under its contract with the Health Ministry for 1.9 million doses of the Chinese vaccine, Lekhim is to supply the first 700,000 doses this month.
Lekhim Group and Sinovac Biotech reached the agreement after ten months of talks over cooperation on the distribution and localization of the vaccine production for a five-year period.
Earlier, Ukraine registered the Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines.
The State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection of Ukraine and the authorized body of Japan have agreed on the form of the veterinary certificate for exporting raw milk and dairy products to Japan, the service said on its website on Tuesday.
“We continue work towards expanding cooperation with international partners. This is very good news for Ukrainian producers interested in the export of raw milk and dairy products: the market of one of the largest strategic partners for Ukrainian food exports – Japan – has been opened,” the head of the authority, Vladyslava Mahaletska, said.
The State Food and Consumer Service said that the website has the example of a veterinary certificate for export to Japan.
The maximum occupancy of rooms in February was recorded in hotels in Kharkiv of 41%, while in Lviv of 39%, Kyiv of 34%, Odesa of 24%, Hotel Matrix said.
“Kharkiv in February was able to overtake Lviv in all respects. Let me remind that according to the results of January, the occupancy of hotels in Lviv was 35%, in Kharkiv was 31%. In such a change of leader, one can see a manifestation of the growth of business activity. But it is necessary to clarify that in Kharkiv there is a lower offer of room stock of 2.3 ones per 1,000 inhabitants. For comparison, in Lviv this figure is 4.3 rooms, in Kyiv it is 4.5, in Odesa it is 6.3,” project supervisor of Hotel Matrix Olha Mischenko told Interfax-Ukraine.
The increase of business activity is indirectly showed by the dynamics of the average tariff (ADR): UAH 2,262 in Kharkiv (against UAH 2,222 in January) and UAH 1,707 (against UAH 1,609) in Kyiv. At the same time, the ADR of Lviv dropped to UAH 1,844 (UAH 2,236), in Odesa to UAH 1,294 (UAH 1,397).
According to analytics, revenue per available number per day (RevPAR) in Kharkiv in February amounted to UAH 925, Lviv to UAH 716, Kyiv to UAH 582, Odesa to UAH 310.
Hotel Matrix is a web-based hotel analytics product developed by specialists from Poland and Ukraine. It was launched in May 2020. Now 150 hotels are connected to Hotel Matrix.
The victory of the tax amnesty will be the withdrawal of $20 billion from the informal economy, Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Danylo Hetmantsev has said.
“I think it will be a victory if we withdraw up to $20 billion from the informal economy,” the MP said on the air of the program Freedom of Speech of Savik Shuster on Friday evening, March 5.
At the same time, according to him, it is difficult to predict the possible income of the government from the legalization of such assets.
“The fiscal goal is not the priority goal [of the tax amnesty],” Hetmantsev said.
As reported, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky registered in parliament a package of bills on tax amnesty, namely, bills No. 5153 (amendments to the Tax Code), No. 5154 (amendments to the Budget Code), No. 5155 (amendments to currency legislation), as well as bill No. 5156 with amendments to the Criminal Code and other laws. The bills propose a tax amnesty with a special duty rate for one-time declaration of 5% for currency valuables deposited in bank accounts in Ukraine and other assets in Ukraine, as well as at a rate of 9% for currency in bank accounts and other assets located abroad.
Israeli Ambassador to Ukraine Joel Lion has condemned the decision of Ternopil City Council to name the city stadium after the Hero of Ukraine, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army Roman Shukhevych.
“We strongly condemn the decision of Ternopil city council to name the City Stadium after the infamous Hauptman of the SS Schutzmannschaft 201 Roman Shukhevych and demand the immediate cancellation of this decision,” the Ambassador wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.
On March 5, a session of Ternopil City Council made a decision to name the city stadium as “Ternopil City Stadium named after Roman Shukhevych.”
Ukrainian metal companies in January-February 2021 increased earnings from exports of ferrous metals by 8.2% compared to the same period last year, to $1.51 billion.
According to updated statistics released by the State Customs Service, the share of ferrous metals of total FX earnings was 17.82% compared with 17.2% a year ago.
In February, earnings from exports of ferrous metals amounted to $764.6 million.
At the same time, Ukraine reduced imports of similar products by 12.1% in January-February 2021, to $121.53 million. In February, this figure was $63.798 million.
In addition, Ukraine increased exports of metal products by 5.7% in the first two months of 2021, to $140.613 million. In February, their export amounted to $77.148 million.
During this period, imports of metal products increased by 1.4%, to $125.407 million. In February, they were imported for $72.504 million.
As reported, in 2020, Ukrainian metal companies reduced earnings from exports of ferrous metals by 12% compared to the previous year, to $7.690 billion. At the same time, Ukraine in 2020 reduced imports of similar products by 17%, to $1.040 billion.
