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RFE/RL: Study shows COVID-19 slashed Russia’s life expectancy by over 2 years

Researchers say life expectancy in Russia fell by more than two years in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more here.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Time: Many COVID-19 survivors still can’t smell or taste

n the morning after Christmas 2020, Carolyn Hinds woke up and realized she couldn’t smell or taste anything. Other signs of COVID-19, like fever, …
Time

Zelensky signs law on Hr 800 million allocation to equip oxygen stations in hospitals

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed law No.5460 on amendments to the law of Ukraine on the 2021 national budget of Ukraine, which relate to …
Interfax-Ukraine

Kyiv hospital in battle against deadly COVID-19 wave (PHOTOS)

The recent COVID-19 wave has swept Ukraine with record numbers of registered cases and deaths. Sixteen out of 24 Ukrainian oblasts and the city of …
Kostyantyn Chernichkin

UA.TV: Responsibility for selling, using forged COVID-certificates

Neither the daily number of deaths nor the risk of being jailed scares those who sell fake Covid certificates and those who buy them. Since the …
UA.TV

Foreign Ministry: Exclusion from EU ‘green list’ is not abolition of visa-free travel

On Nov. 5, the ambassadors of the EU member states prepared the decision of the EU Council to exclude Ukraine from the list of third countries whose …
Interfax-Ukraine

Thousands of Ukrainians lose loved ones to COVID‑19

Behind every number in the statistics of deaths from COVID‑19, there is a grieving family that lost a parent, grandparent, child or partner. The …
Daria Shulzhenko

Sources: EU ambassadors exclude Ukraine from list of safe countries for travel

BRUSSELS – The ambassadors of the European Union have excluded Ukraine from the list of countries for which it is recommended to lift the restrictive …
Interfax-Ukraine

Liashko explains when booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine will be available

A booster dose of the vaccine against the coronavirus disease COVID-19 will become available to residents of Ukraine after crossing the mark of 50% of …
Interfax-Ukraine

Fake Diia applications plague Ukraine amid mounting COVID-19 death toll, infections

Simply faking a COVID-19 vaccination certificate is nothing new in Ukraine. But fraudsters are now going as far as to produce whole fake applications …
Dylan Carter

Reuters: Worldwide coronavirus cases cross 248.56 million

More than 248.56 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 5,260,915 have died, according to a Reuters …
Reuters

Associated Press: Spiraling infections grip low-vaccination parts of Europe

ZAGREB — Central and Eastern Europe grappled with spiraling coronavirus cases on Nov. 4 with several countries hitting new daily records in the …
Associated Press

Oleksandra Ustinova: Ukraine MPs fight back against fake COVID-19 vaccination certificates

In recent months, Ukraine has experienced some of the world’s highest infection and death rates from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Despite this …
Oleksandra Ustinova

CNN: WHO warns Europe facing 500,000 more COVID-19 deaths by February

Europe is facing a potentially devastating winter that could see half a million people die with COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned …
CNN

Deutsche Welle: Europe ‘back at epicenter of the pandemic,’ says WHO

The WHO Europe chief says that relaxed prevention measures and low vaccination rates in some areas explain the latest surge. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s …
Deutsche Welle

Reuters: Britain approves Merck’s COVID-19 pill in world first

Britain on Nov. 4 became the first country in the world to approve a potentially game-changing COVID-19 antiviral pill jointly developed by U.S.-based …
Reuters

President’s Office: 48 hospitals to be built in Ukraine in 2022

Some 48 regional hospitals will be built in Ukraine in 2022, some of them will be equipped with helipads, Deputy Head of the President’s Office Kyrylo …
Interfax-Ukraine

Associated Press: Russia sets another COVID-19 daily death record with 1,195

MOSCOW — Russia has set another record for daily coronavirus deaths as it struggles through a long surge of infections that has prompted restrictions …
Associated Press
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