Statistics show that Ukraine’s preliminary result of a nearly two-month coronavirus lockdown with harsh restrictive measures is that the country has only managed to slow down the spread of the coronavirus without overcoming it while suffering huge economic losses. This means that, despite Ukraine’s relatively low official numbers of COVID-19 infections, the situation can spiral out of control now that the quarantine is eased, and Ukraine can become a hotspot of the disease like its neighbors Belarus and Russia.
TEXTY: Ukraine listed among countries worst at coping with COVID-19
Visitors talk at an outdoor cafe in the Podil district in Kyiv on May 13, 2020 after the Ukrainian government allowed such cafes to reopen by easing some of the COVID-19 quarantine restrictions.
