Ukraine has reached a “plateau” epidemic COVID-19: the Ministry of health said that it means
6 may, 14:19
Denis Bespalov
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Vitaly Andronicus
If the country is not prematurely released from quarantine, the number of infected will decrease
Ukraine has reached a “plateau” epidemic COVID-19when there is a sharp spike in the incidence. In an interview with “Today” said the Deputy Minister of health, chief sanitary doctor Viktor Lyashko.
“The peak of growth, we are 17 days on the “plateau”. It is our goal that we wanted to achieve the introduction of quarantine to avoid the rapid growth and balance without simultaneously loading and of hospitalization of patients”, he said.
According to him, the projected peak incidence could come on April 14.
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“According to calculations, we could be on the 14th of April 41 thousand patients. But we have to enter quarantine. If we take a retrospective dynamics and we will not have further growth, we have already reached the peak on 17 April. Since then, we kept the interval 400-550 cases, and in this range we have 17 days,” he said.
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Victor Lyashko noted, if the country is not prematurely released from quarantine, “then, in principle, we expect stabilization and a gradual decrease in the number of cases of coronavirus disease.”
“But we need to be alert, because the infection is new – we don’t know how to behave in the pathogen. We orientirueshsya Poland, because, according to the dynamics, Ukraine is goes as goes Poland, but with a lag of 11-14 days,” said he.
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We will remind, according to the Centre for public health, as of 9:00 on may 6, the country recorded 13 184 cases COVID-19. As a result of complications caused by a coronavirus, had died of 316 people.
Meanwhile, the health Ministry said, as are Ukrainians to be hospitalized during the quarantine.
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