Ukraine is holding talks on supply of medicines with active substance Hydroxychlorochinum, which in particular are prescribed to treat malaria and showed the efficacy against the coronavirus disease COVID-19, Head of the parliamentary committee for health of the nation and medical insurance Mykhailo Radutsky has said.
“There is such a drug – hydroxychlorochinum, which is prescribed for the treatment of malaria, rheumatoid arthritis and some dermatological diseases. There are no clinical trials of the efficacy of treating COVID-19. However, the corresponding clinical trials are being conducted in the United States, Europe and China. The law that we plan to adopt will allow us to apply this drug during the treatment of COVID-19. Today, we are looking for this drug around the world, countries have banned its export, consider it strategic,” he said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
Radutsky said that negotiations on the purchase of the drug are underway, in particular with India.
“This is the second day in negotiations with the government of India, where this drug is also being manufactured. We are waiting for their decision,” he said.
Ukraine will switch to summer daylight saving time in the early hours of March 29, 2020.
“We inform that according to Cabinet of Ministers resolution No. 509 of May 13, 1996 on the procedure for calculating time on Ukrainian territory in the territory of Ukraine on March 29, 2020 at 03.00 Kyiv time the summer daylight saving time is introduced with clocks moved one hour forward,” the department of the technical regulation and metrology of the Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine.
Kyiv City Council at an extraordinary meeting on Thursday, March 26, established a 50% discount for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) to pay lease of municipal property due to quarantine measures.
“We promised and found a mechanism to reduce financial burden on small and medium-sized businesses operating in the capital, and which is most vulnerable in this difficult time for the city and the country. Small and medium-sized businesses will get the right to these benefits starting March 11,” the press service of Kyiv City State Administration said, citing Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
According to the statement, by the end of July 2020, entrepreneurs are provided with a 50% discount on the payment of communal property leases, and if the property cannot be used, tenants are also exempted from the lease payment until July 31.
According to Kyiv City State Administration, about 900,000 square meters of non-residential communal property are leased in the capital, most of which are rented by about 6,000 small and medium-sized entrepreneurs.
PJSC Khmelnytskoblenergo, according to preliminary data, doubled its net profit (by UAH 42.9 million) in 2019 compared to 2018, to UAH 85.711 million.
According to the statement on the website of Khmelnytskoblenergo on Thursday, Mach 26, about holding a general meeting of the company’s shareholders scheduled for April 30, 2020, its assets grew by 2.26%, to UAH 2.507 billion, fixed assets by 4.7%, to UAH 2.150 billion in 2019.
The meeting’s agenda contains four scenarios for the distribution of the company’s profits: it is proposed to pay 30%, 50%, 75% or 90% of these funds in dividends. The remaining funds should be allocated to replenishment of the company’s reserve capital (5%), replenishment of the fund for the company’s technical re-equipment or to the implementation of the expenses stipulated by the 2020 financial plan, depending on the amount of dividends.
The shareholders will also have to consider, in particular, the issue of granting consent to the alienation of the company’s share of 100% in the charter capital of Khmelnytskenergozbut LLC by selling at auction in ProZorro.Sale system.
The shareholders also intend to update the supervisory board and the audit committee, to amend the charter and to elect an external auditor of the company.
The sowing campaign amid quarantine started quite well in all regions of Ukraine, the pace is approximately the same as in 2019, with a slight advance due to early spring, Director General of UkrAgroConsult consulting agency Serhiy Feofilov has said.
“The import component in sowing resource is still very high. Nevertheless, the main material and technical resources were imported into Ukraine and purchased by farms before the quarantine and the devaluation. The negative impact on cost of production is still minimal,” the agency said on UkrAgroConsult’s website, citing Feofilov.
Feofilov said that it is a positive point in the fact that corn seeds are mainly produced at Ukrainian seed plants, only parental forms are imported. The expansion of spring grain will be precisely due to corn. The situation with plant protection is almost the same, namely all needed is imported, except that the line of products will decrease against expectations, the top manager said.
“The situation is contradictory in terms of fuel. Fuel supply is sufficient and the main intrigue is the price level. On the one hand, we can expect it to decline after the oil falls. On the other hand, fuel sellers tend to price stabilization, given hryvnia devaluation and a possible reduction in supplies,” the director general of UkrAgroConsult said.
The Cabinet of Ministers proposes to abolish support for agricultural producers, for which UAH 4 billion is provided in the 2020 national budget and increase funding for the Pension Fund of Ukraine by UAH 20 billion, to UAH 192 billion.
The materials of amendments to the law on the 2020 national budget of Ukraine, which the government submitted to the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada, were released by MP Oleksiy Honcharenko in the Telegram Channel on Thursday, March 26.
According to the amendments, the Cabinet of Ministers also intends to cut a number of subventions to local budgets, namely for the construction and repair of roads by UAH 3.24 billion, to UAH 18.9 billion; for local elections by more than UAH 2 billion, to UAH 1.3 million.
The amendments also provide for a reduction in the financing of the State Road Agency (Ukravtodor) by UAH 3.27 billion, to UAH 18.9 billion.
Regarding the country’s power bloc, it is proposed that the financing of the Interior Ministry be left at almost the same level at UAH 92.961 billion against the current UAH 92.966 billion. The costs for the Prosecutor General’s Office are proposed to be cut by UAH 50 million, to UAH 7.55 billion.
According to the materials with the proposed changes, funding for the Cabinet of Ministers Secretariat can be reduced by UAH 670 million, to UAH 930 million; the Supreme Court by UAH 110 million, to UAH 2.27 billion, the Verkhovna Rada apparatus by UAH 11 million, to UAH 1.989 billion.
