Due to new cases of COVID-19 infection, Kyiv residents are advised to wear masks again to reduce the risk of infection, the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration reported.
“This issue is also relevant in Kyiv. After all, new cases of coronavirus are recorded every week. Among the hospitalized patients, there are serious patients,” the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration quoted the first deputy head of the Kyiv City State Administration Mykola Povoroznyk as saying.
He emphasized that it is advisable for Kyiv residents to return to the mask regime in crowded places to reduce the risk of infection.
“This is primarily about your health, which needs to be protected. In particular, in case of deterioration and the first symptoms of the disease, you should definitely consult your family doctor and, if necessary, be tested for COVID-19 in time,” he stressed, reminding that vaccination is a reliable protection against severe coronavirus disease.
As reported, the World Health Organization (WHO) urges to continue to observe the mask regime and social distancing to avoid contracting COVID-19, these recommendations are related to the growing trend in many countries where cases of coronavirus disease are observed, said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
International hotel operator Accor Live Limitless (France) will open a three-star ibis Kyiv Beresteiska hotel in late 2023, according to the operator’s website.
“I am pleased to announce the opening of ibis Kyiv Beresteiska. It will be a great addition to the Accor family in Ukraine,” commented Andriy Davydenko, CEO of Accor Northern Europe – Ukraine, Georgia and the CIS, in a linked post.
As reported, the international hotel operator Accor Live Limitless planned to launch three new hotels in Ukraine in 2022-2023, ibis & Adagio Kyiv, ibis Lviv and Novotel Lviv. At the end of December 2022, Adagio Kyiv Beresteiska also started operating. Both hotels are located in the same building at 55 Peremohy Ave. Adagio Kyiv Beresteiska has 105 rooms and Adagio Kyiv Beresteiska has 156 rooms.
Adagio Kyiv Beresteiska is an apart-hotel, its rooms are adapted for long-term stays: they have fully equipped kitchens, special workspaces, WIFI and other necessary facilities for work and leisure. The ibis Kyiv Beresteiska has six meeting rooms for business events and conferences.
The 77-room ibis Styles Lviv Center hotel, located in the business center of Lviv at 3 Shukhevycha Street, was opened in December 2022.
Accor Group, one of the world’s leading hotel operators, opened the first hotel under the Novotel brand in Lille (France) in 1967.
As of December 2023, Accor operated 5,487 hotels, resorts and residences in 110 countries under more than 40 brands (Raffles, Sofitel, Fairmont, OneFineStay, MGallery, Pullman, Swissotel, Grand Mercure, The Sebel, 25 hours hotel, Novotel, Mercure, Adagio, Mama Shelter, Ibis, Ibis Styles, Adagio success, Ibis Budget, Jo&Joe, hotelFormule1, hotel F1, Thalassa sea&spa, greet, etc. ).
Accor SA shares are listed on Euronext in Paris and traded on the US over-the-counter market.
In Ukraine, AccorHotels manages three-star Ibis hotels in Kyiv, Ibis Styles and Gruner in Lviv, five-star Fairmont Grand Hotel in Kyiv, and Mercure Kyiv Congress Hotel. In addition, one hotel under Accor’s management is located in Odesa – MGallery Hôtel de Paris.
Despite the fact that Kyiv, like other cities, can only help those units that are formed and registered on the territory of the community, the capital’s authorities find opportunities to help other units of the Armed Forces and will increase this assistance, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on the Kyiv TV channel, the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration reports.
“Kyiv has allocated 7 billion hryvnias to help our military. This is 10 percent of the capital’s budget. Although initially the amount was planned to be much less – 100 million. We receive requests from our defenders almost every day. And we have never left them unanswered or without help. We have delivered 170 vehicles of various types to various units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It includes bulletproof vests, helmets, first aid kits, communications equipment, medical equipment… UAH 1 billion 550 million was allocated from the city budget for drones alone. Because we understand that our future depends on the strength of our military,” Klitschko emphasized.
He noted that at almost every meeting, the Kyiv City Council makes changes to the budget to increase assistance to the Ukrainian army. The city also allocated a lot of money for the construction of fortifications.
Klitschko added that helping the defenders is also a social component.
“The city provides financial assistance to veterans and families of heroes – 800 million hryvnias in 2023 alone. We also constantly purchase medical equipment for military hospitals and rehabilitation centers. We also allocate funds for the purchase of apartments for the families of our defenders… Kyiv has also been paying 30 thousand hryvnias to those mobilized since December 1 to provide financial incentives to new recruits. And it will continue to do so next year,” Klitschko emphasized.
“For the next year, we have preliminarily planned UAH 1 billion in the budget to help the army. But I can assure you that we will continue to increase our assistance, despite the fact that the military personal income tax (PIT) has been taken away from us. This means losses for the capital’s budget of about UAH 7 billion. This is despite the fact that Kyiv still pays 60 percent of personal income tax to the state budget (other cities pay 40 percent). But I repeat: we will do everything to effectively help our defenders,” Klitschko emphasized.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Dobrobut Medical Network has invested UAH 400 million in a multidisciplinary clinic on Bazhana Avenue in Kyiv.
According to a press release from the medical chain, citing Serhiy Orl, COO of Dobrobut Multidisciplinary Hospital on Bazhana Avenue, Raiffeisen Bank, FUIB and Credit Agricole Bank have become financial partners in the development of the clinic’s ophthalmology department.
“We plan to further develop ophthalmic surgery, providing the highest level of services to our patients,” said Orel.
As reported earlier, Dobrobut medical chain opened an ophthalmology clinic at the end of December on the basis of a multidisciplinary hospital on Bazhana Avenue in Kyiv.
“Dobrobut is one of Ukraine’s largest private healthcare networks. The company’s portfolio includes 17 medical centers in Kyiv and Kyiv region, an emergency service, dentistry and pharmacies. The medical centers of the network provide services for children and adults in more than 75 medical areas. Every year, Dobrobut specialists perform more than 7 thousand surgeries. The network employs more than 2.8 thousand people.
Thanks to cooperation with international charitable organizations such as Direct Relief International, Children of War Foundation, International Medical Corps and University of Miami Global Institute, as well as the work of the Dobrobut Foundation charitable foundation, the clinics of the network continued to operate even during the hostilities and provided a significant part of medical services free of charge. Since the first days of the war, the Dobrobut Medical and Diagnostic Center in Kyiv has been providing emergency medical care to Ukraine’s defenders and wounded civilians free of charge 24/7.
Dobrobut Medical Network has opened an ophthalmology clinic at its multidisciplinary hospital on Bazhana Avenue in Kyiv. According to a press release from the healthcare chain, the clinic provides a full range of ophthalmology services – from outpatient appointments and diagnostics to surgical interventions of any complexity.
The team of ophthalmic surgeons at Dobrobut Clinic is headed by a married couple – Professor Andrii Sergienko, MD, and Victoria Sergienko, PhD. Professor Sergienko has been developing the field of treatment of retinal diseases and rare eye pathologies for 35 years. He has performed more than 30 thousand surgeries in Europe, Asia and Africa.
The clinic’s team consists of eight doctors who consult and operate. They will involve colleagues from other medical areas of Dobrobut: neurosurgeons, endocrinologists, cardiologists, and oncodermatologists.
The medical network clarifies that the clinic, in particular, provides medical care to the military with eye injuries caused by small metal fragments or blast waves.
“The war has led to an increase not only in the demand for ophthalmic services, but also in the complexity of the problems patients come with. Collaboration with other Dobrobut doctors will allow us to develop new areas, such as ophthalmogenetics and neuro-ophthalmology to treat complex diseases,” Professor Sergienko said in a press release.
“Dobrobut is one of the largest private medical networks in Ukraine. The company’s portfolio includes 17 medical centers in Kyiv and Kyiv region, an emergency service, dentistry and pharmacies. The medical centers of the network provide services for children and adults in more than 75 medical areas. Every year, Dobrobut specialists perform more than 7,000 surgeries. The network employs more than 2,800 people.
Thanks to cooperation with international charitable organizations such as Direct Relief International, Children of War Foundation, International Medical Corps and University of Miami Global Institute, as well as the work of the Dobrobut Foundation charitable foundation, the clinics of the network continued to operate even during the hostilities and provided a significant part of medical services free of charge. Since the first days of the war, the Dobrobut Medical and Diagnostic Center in Kyiv has been providing emergency medical care to Ukraine’s defenders and wounded civilians free of charge 24/7.
As of 10:00 a.m. on December 19, Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecom operator, restored high-speed mobile internet in the Kyiv subway, and earlier mobile internet was restored in the Kharkiv subway, the company’s press service said on Tuesday.
“The My Kyivstar information system has been restored, where subscribers can view their account balances. Kyivstar’s telecom network has almost entered the stabilization period,” the statement said.
On the territory controlled by Ukraine, 99% of the base stations are in working order, and all basic services are available to customers: communication and mobile Internet services, SMS, international voice roaming services, etc., the mobile operator’s press service said.
In addition, Kyivstar stores have restored most services.
It is noted that Kyivstar continues to improve the Home Internet service in Kyiv and a number of other places, and also plans to gradually remove restrictions on mobile Internet speeds in the near future.
“Kyivstar specialists are working on the launch of high-speed mobile Internet in roaming and plan to launch this service for Ukrainian subscribers in Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland and a number of other countries in the near future,” the company said in a statement.
To stabilize the services, the company has engaged all available technical staff, as well as international partners from Sweden, Ireland, the United States, China, Finland and other countries, the press service said.
Earlier it was reported that Kyivstar expects to achieve full stabilization in the provision of services by the end of the week.
After a failure in the early morning hours of December 12 caused by a large-scale cyberattack, Kyivstar began restoring voice services in the evening of December 13, the company’s mobile Internet service started working again in some regions a day later, and the company announced its full restoration in the country on the evening of December 15.
On December 17, Kivestar resumed providing voice services, including roaming, mobile data, Home Internet, virtual private network (VPN) services and started restoring access to M2M (Machine-to-Machine) services for business customers. Kyivstar restored access to SMS services, including international roaming, and M2M services on 18 December.
