Ukrainians were told about the specifics of the spread and mortality of the coronavirus and warned about the risk of infection for three quarters of the country’s population. This was told by an anesthesiologist, professor Sergey Dubrov , according to Telegram – Ukrainian channel ministry of health .
According to him, mortality from COVID-19 is low in comparison with other diseases. Nevertheless, it is the coronavirus that can lead to much more victims than diseases with a high fatality rate.
Dubrov recalled that 1.9-2 percent of those infected with SARS-CoV-2 die. However, this infection spreads much more easily than dangerous diseases such as tuberculosis. This disease is detected in no more than seven percent of the population, while ten times more people can become infected with the coronavirus.
“If 70 percent of 40 million, that is, 30 million, get sick, and two percent of them die, then, excuse me, the number of deaths will exceed all the combined indicators of strokes, heart attacks, tuberculosis and other diseases, not by percentage, but by the absolute number of people, “the professor concluded.
November 21 the government of Ukraine began to develop a plan to introduce a full lockdown in the country … On November 11, Ukraine introduced a weekend quarantine. From 00:00 Saturday to 00:00 Monday, only critical infrastructure objects can work: grocery stores, pharmacies, transport. Many business and service workers protested demanding the end of the quarantine, which deprives them of their earnings.
According to the latest data, over 653 thousand cases of coronavirus infection have been registered in Ukraine for the entire time of the pandemic. Of these, 11.4 thousand patients died, 303 782 people recovered. In total, more than 59 million infected citizens have been identified in the world, 1.3 million people have died.