Ukraine has registered 8,655 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) and 467 related deaths in the past 24 hours, the press service for the Ukrainian Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
“Over the past day, Ukraine has recorded 8,655 new cases of COVID-19, including 716 children and 200 medical workers, while 188,758 people have been vaccinated for COVID-19, including 73,097 who received their first shot and 115,661 who completed their vaccination. In the past 24 hours, 1,349 persons have been hospitalized, 467 have died, and 22,878 have recovered,” the ministry said on Telegram.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Ukraine has seen a total of 3.511 million COVID-19 infections, including 3.083 million recoveries and 88,986 deaths.
As of this day, 13.826 million people have been vaccinated for COVID-19, including 13.826 million who received the first dose and 11.922 million who completed their vaccination.
The Ministry of Health of Ukraine said that 43.8% of the adult population of Ukraine received at least one vaccine against COVID-19, and 37.2% completed the full course of vaccination.
“Already 43.8% of the adult population of Ukraine have received at least one vaccination against COVID-19. Some 37.2% of the adult population of Ukraine have completed the full course of vaccination against coronavirus disease,” the ministry said on its Telegram channel.
The Ministry of Health also reported that according to WHO recommendations, the rate of vaccinated people in the world by the end of the year should be 40%.
As reported, since the beginning of the vaccination campaign 13,610,070 people have been vaccinated, of which 13,610,068 people received one dose, 11,549,490 people were fully immunized and received two doses. A total of 25,159,558 vaccinations were carried out.
The owners of hotels in ski resorts will be fined for the tourists not having documents confirming their COVID status (vaccination certificate, negative PCR tests or a certificate of recovery), Health Minister Viktor Liashko said.
“If visitors or employees do not have the necessary documents, the owner of the establishment may be held liable under the article ‘Violation of the rules of quarantine of people’ of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Ukraine. It regards a fine from UAH 34,000 to 170,000,” he said at a briefing on Thursday.
Liashko said that at ski resorts “only those people who have been checked for the presence of COVID documents are allowed to provide services.”
“Adult visitors and clients on winter vacations must have proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or testing negative or recovery,” he said.
The Minister noted that after consulting with specialized associations, the Ministry of Health recommends checking COVID documents during check-in at a hotel or when buying a ski pass.
Visitors to the resort are advised to assign a unique mark, such as a sticker, to identify that a person’s documents have already been verified. Also, the mark should indicate who exactly issued it.
“This is necessary to avoid repeated checks of documents and to enable the use of related services: cable cars, street fairs and other services,” he said.
Some 100 offline support centers are planned to be opened in Ukraine to provide assistance in receiving UAH 1,000 for vaccinations, head of the Servant of the People party Olena Shuliak said.
“The bill, which was adopted at the first reading on the allocation of UAH 3 billion this year for the so-called ‘UAH 1,000’ for vaccinated Ukrainians, now suggests that this amount will be increased to UAH 8 billion […]. In order to start a program to pay this UAH 1,000, some 100 offline support centers will operate, where assistance will be provided to citizens so that they could receive this UAH 1,000,” Shuliak told journalists on the sidelines of parliament on Thursday.
She also said that this UAH 1,000 is not taxed and does not affect the amount of the subsidy.
The Cabinet of Ministers has introduced temporary restrictions on the entry into Ukraine of citizens of a number of South African countries to counter the spread of the Omicron coronavirus strain.
According to the decision adopted at a government meeting on Thursday, in particular, the entry into the country of citizens of South Africa, the Republic of Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, the Kingdom of Lesotho, the Kingdom of Eswatini, the Republic of Mozambique, and the Republic of Malawi is limited.
In addition, citizens of Ukraine and other countries who have been in these countries for at least seven days in the last 14 days must go through mandatory self-isolation. The resolution comes into force from 24:00 on December 3.
The new Omicron coronavirus disease strain has not yet been detected in Ukraine, but all non-Delta samples will be subject to mandatory genome-wide sequencing, Health Minister Viktor Liashko has said.“Now in Ukraine there is a system for monitoring the spread of COVID-19 strains. At the regional level, there is a certain reserve of PCR test systems for determining the Delta strain. All non-Delta samples will be subject to mandatory genome-wide sequencing. To date, the Omicron strain has not been found on the territory of Ukraine,” he said at a briefing on Monday.The minister said that the government had already decided to allocate an additional UAH 67.5 million for the purchase of additional test systems for the determination of the Delta strain.
