“A record number of PCR tests in Ukraine, oxygen tracks in Kharkiv, manure in parks in Sweden.”, — write: www.pravda.com.ua
Ukraine is in quarantine 50th day.
Cabinet of Ministers allowed the operation of markets in compliance with the requirements of the Ministry of Health. Almost 900 markets can resume work.
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On May 6, the government will consider a number of quarantine relaxations for business.
After May 11 in Ukraine are planning to introduce “adaptive quarantine”, which involves strengthening restrictions in places of outbreaks of the coronavirus, and not throughout the country.
“Even after the opening of all institutions and transport, masks, disinfectants, social distancing, personal hygiene will not go anywhere. From now on, this is the norm,” said the Prime Minister.
Ukraine. The number of patients exceeded 10 thousand For the entire duration of the coronavirus epidemic in Ukraine:
- 10,406 of established cases, of which 2,063 are medical workers and 717 are children
- 1 238 people recovered
- 261 fatal cases
- done 111,859 PCR tests, some of them are repeated.
On Bukovynawhich is the leader in the number of infected people in Ukraine, already has more than one and a half thousand patients – 1,571. A little less in Kyiv – 1,401.
The predicted weekly number of patients in a certain region can now be seen online.
Over the past day:
- 540 established patients, including 87 medical workers and 45 children
- 11 fatal cases
- 135 people recovered
After up to 500 daily patients were recorded in Ukraine for 6 days in a row, their number again exceeded this mark. It is not yet possible to talk about a decline in the number of patients.
It was done in Ukraine over the past day a record number of PCR tests – 7,315. The president urged not to reduce the number of tests on weekends and holidays.
In the Armed Forces, two patients per day (in Kharkiv Oblast and Kirovohrad Oblast), just since the beginning of the epidemic – 76 cases of infection.
Not a single patient has been found at the front since the beginning of the epidemic.
What happened in the regions during the day:
- Ternopil The city decided not to open markets until the end of the quarantine. The region is among the five regions with the largest number of infected people, with almost 800 cases of COVID-19.
- Ternopil region. A priest who secretly conducted services in the presence of parishioners died of COVID-19. An ambulance paramedic also died of coronavirus.
- Rivne region. The management of the regional hospital will be punished for the violation of sanitation measures, which led to the infection of almost 90 medical workers.
- Lviv. The city is asking the government to open parks, squares, summer terraces of cafes and restaurants from May 12, and to allow local councils to independently decide when to open hairdressers, bookstores and other shops.
- Zaporizhzhia region. Restrictions will be tightened in the region, in particular, additional checkpoints will be installed in resort areas on weekends and access to the coast of the Sea of Azov will be closed.
The situation on temporarily occupied territoriesaccording to the occupiers: there are 92 patients in Crimea, 100 in Donetsk region, and 119 in Luhansk region.
Follow the dynamics of changes in the number of patients in Ukraine and in each region on maps and graphs “Ukrainian Pravda”.
“One more day of your care and we will be gone!” After numerous street closures in the regions and rallies under the windows of local state administrations, small entrepreneurs flocked to Kyiv. On April 29, several hundred protesters gathered under the Cabinet of Ministers building, demanding to be allowed to work during quarantine.
Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov reprimanded the protesters for neglecting safety during the coronavirus epidemic.
“If among the protesters there was at least one person sick with coronavirus, then the risk of getting sick is in all the people who were among the protesters, and not only them, but also in all their relatives and close ones“, Stepanov said.
The first charter of wage earners Ukrainians who were supposed to fly to work in London by UIA charter found themselves blocked at the airport for 9 hours. Two hours before departure, the State Aviation Service canceled the flight “without specifying the reasons and referring to regulatory documents”, says UIA.
The airline organized a flight on behalf of the employer from London, all passengers had long-term contracts.
“This category is not risky for Ukraine, citizens will not require evacuation in the near future and will not be potential spreaders of COVID-19 on the territory of Ukraine“, UIA said.
In the end, the flight was unblocked thanks to media publicity, and at approximately 9:35 p.m., the plane carrying the Ukrainians took off from Boryspil.
After almost 9 hours of delay, the plane with Ukrainian workers left Boryspil for London. At first, the flight was canceled a few hours before departure, but the passengers remained at the airport and waited for permission to fly.Oleg Tumak sent us a video from the plane pic.twitter.com/sGHLKFNMSM
— hromadske (@HromadskeUA) April 29, 2020
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Oxygen lines are being built in Kharkiv In two infectious diseases hospitals, a regional hospital and an oncology center in Kharkiv, new oxygen routes are being built, which are necessary for supplying oxygen to patients. People with COVID-19 often need it.
How it works: special devices that deliver oxygen to the lungs are attached to the valves on the oxygen lines. Patients who can still breathe on their own are connected to oxygen, this stage precedes connection to ventilators.
The routes are built on the funds of Kharkiv IT companies, which collected almost 500,000 hryvnias for them.
Work has already begun in the cancer center, which has outdated tracks, two of them are more than 10 years old. There are no people infected with the coronavirus in the cancer center, but its patients are at risk, explains director Denys Skoryy.
World. 10 thousand dead During the day, the number of patients increased by approximately 77.5 thousand. Which is 2.5 thousand more than the day before.
10.5 thousand died. Such a high daily mortality is explained by the calculation of deaths in Great Britain.
The largest number of patients appeared in the USA, Brazil and Russia. For the 8th day, Russia is among the top three countries with the fastest spread of the virus, the number of dead has exceeded one thousand. Brazil got there for the second time.
Among the countries where the most people have recovered are Spain, Turkey, and the USA.
Great Britain, the USA and Spain became the leaders in terms of daily mortality.
Despite the fact that more than 3 million people are infected with the coronavirus in the world, there are still 33 countries where not a single case of the disease has been recorded. Most often we are talking about small island states.
USA. 6 million tests In the USA in the last day:
- 2,612 died. Which is about 600 more than the day before. The number of dead is increasing for the third day in a row.
- 27,327 people fell ill. The number of new patients is increasing for the third day.
Since the beginning of the epidemic in the USA, 61 thousand people have died, 12 have been cured 4 thousand.
The United States has conducted more than 6 million tests, more than any other country in the world.
Mike Pence, the vice president of the United States, said that the States conduct about a million tests a week. In the near future, their number is planned to increase to 2 million per week.
President Donald Trump is increasingly blaming China for the pandemic and on Wednesday again said that Beijing should have told the world about the coronavirus much earlier. He also pondered retribution: “There’s a lot I can do,” he said. “We are finding out what happened.”
American experts predict at least six months of decline in the American economy. In the first quarter of this year, the American GDP has already decreased by 4.8%.
In New York, police dispersed a huge crowd of ultra-Orthodox Jews who attended the funeral of a rabbi who died of the coronavirus. There are strict bans on mass gatherings across the state.
The police were called to a funeral home in Brooklyn, where the coronavirus is raging, because of an unpleasant smell. It turned out that the institution’s administration rented 4 refrigerated trucks, where they put the corpses, there were already more than 50 of them in the cars.
A 30-year-old woman with coronavirus died in a federal prison in Texas. A month before that, she gave birth to a child while in extremely critical condition on a ventilator. The woman was sentenced to more than two years for drug trafficking.
Great Britain. The British will harvest themselves In Great Britain per day:
- 765 died. For the first time, this number includes deaths not only in hospitals, but also in nursing homes and in the community. Since the beginning of the epidemic – 26,097. The Department of Health in England reported an additional 3,811 deaths in England since the beginning of the outbreak. Thus, the statistics per day increased by approximately 4,500 dead
- After counting the deaths, Britain has the third highest death toll in the world after the US and Spain.
- 4,091 people fell ill, which is slightly more than the day before. Since the beginning of the epidemic – 166,441.
Thousands of British workers will have to help with the harvest, as seasonal workers from other parts of Europe cannot come due to the closed borders due to the coronavirus.
Trump’s panic twitter buying and the indifferent president of Brazil President Brazil Jair Messias Bolsonaro, who does not recognize the seriousness of the problem, angered many with his response to the question about the large number of dead:
“And what? I mourn (death – ed.), what do you want me to do? My name is Messiah (Messias – from Portuguese Mesía – ed.), but I can’t work miracles.”
This week, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the country exceeded 5 thousand. Over the past day, the number of infected people has increased by a record number of 6,276 cases, the total number of patients is more than 79,600.
IN USA the authorities were in such a hurry to fight the virus that they gave money to anyone. The trump card of a man who made money from the state was twitter – the favorite tool of the American president.
Fate smiled on an unknown engineer after he responded to Donald Trump’s tweet and wrote that he could supply ventilators.
The engineer had no experience in working with medical goods, he had never dealt with such supplies and in general with government orders. He had only 75 followers. But in three days he received 69.1 million dollars for 1,450 devices – the price exceeded three times the standard price.
An official from the agency that awarded the contract told reporters that they received a direct recommendation for the supplier from the White House. Now the contract has been terminated, and the state funds are being tried to be returned.
Manure repeller and beach bleach Swedish the city of Lund has ordered manure to be spread in parks to avoid mass gatherings on the occasion of the spring festival and the risks of the spread of the coronavirus.
On April 30, they traditionally celebrate Walpurgis Night, a popular pagan holiday that symbolizes the end of winter.
An official in the south of Spain was forced to apologize after ordering a local beach to be sprayed with diluted bleach:
“I admit it’s a mistake. But it was done with the best of intentions.”
Tractors with sprayers were preparing the street for the first time in 6 weeks that the children would leave their homes, but they angered environmentalists.
Reporters without pants During quarantine, many people change or even give up their usual things. The reporter of the “Good Morning America” program, for example, gave up his pants when he appeared on the air of one of the largest channels in the country.
It seemed that no one would notice Will Reeve’s trick, because only his upper part, dressed in a jacket, was in the frame. But the camera took a wider angle, and right under the jacket, the presenter’s bare legs fluttered.
Nice room. Nice shorts. 7/10. @ReeveWill pic.twitter.com/UIdj5N64cq
— Room Rater (@ratemyskyperoom) April 28, 2020
Both Reeve and his colleagues reacted to the incident with humor: the reporter himself reposted his facap on Twitter, and the next morning’s TV program even devoted part of the broadcast to it.
Madrid authorities have helped residents set up home theaters on their balconies during quarantine. Movies are shown on large screens installed just outside.
Researchers from several American universities suggest that in the long term, the quarantine may have a positive effect on gender equality both at work and in families. After all, millions of dads, who previously did not spend so much time with their children, are now forced to stay at home.
Atlas Weekend has been postponed for a year. Mayor Klitschko showed how to get a haircut at home One of the largest festivals in Eastern Europe, Atlas Weekend, which is held every year in Kyiv, has been postponed due to COVID-19 to July 6-11, 2021.
According to the organizers, they are currently negotiating with all the artists in order to keep the already announced line-up. Tickets purchased for this year’s festival are valid for AW 2021.
Mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitschko showed a master class on how to cut hair at home during quarantine. He posted a video in which Andy Zavala struts with scissors and a trimmer to the Spanish song “Coronavirus”.
Before that, the mayor of the capital held a training session in his office. In the video, Klitschko jumps using an electric cable instead of a jump rope, does push-ups on his fists and punches a punching bag.
Singers Zlata Ognievich and Tonya Matvienko became the first stars to join the QuarantineBezDomu project. This is an initiative of the charity fund Caritas Ukraine, the goal of which is to collect one million hryvnias to help the homeless.
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All collected funds will be distributed among 12 centers where there are free canteens for the homeless. In addition, the fund will purchase medicines and necessary protective items for them – masks and sanitizers.
The scandalous “Miss Ukraine”-2019 Margarita Pasha, who declared that Crimea belongs to everyone, became a master’s degree in quarantine. She defended her diploma in international law online.
