Ukraine's chief sanitary doctor: Early to talk about end of quarantine - Apr. 17, 2020

Ukraine’s chief sanitary doctor: Early to talk about end of quarantine

Published April 17, 2020 at 9:35 pm

A healthcare worker wearing protective gear takes the temperature of a driver at the checkpoint in Kyiv on April 16, 2020. Due to the order of Kyiv City Council to prevent the spread of COVID-19 during the Easter holidays entering the city need to be done with body temperature control for cars with more than two people inside or with different registration from Kyiv's oblast . Tthe new rules will be active from April 16 till Aril 21.

Photo by Kostyantyn Chernichkin

It is too soon to talk about early end of the quarantine, chief sanitary doctor of Ukraine Viktor Liashko has said.

“Is Ukraine ready to end the quarantine today? It is too soon to talk about this. Let’s celebrate Easter, let’s reach the final date of the quarantine…April 24, and, I think, on Wednesday after a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers we will announce a decision on further fate of our country – either we prolong the quarantine or take certain measures in order to gradually end the quarantine,” he said on the Inter television channel on April 17.