Incidence of COVID-19 in Ukraine is far from maximum - expert

Ukraine is far from the peak of COVID-19 disease, said the Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Respiratory and Other Viral Infections of the Institute of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases named after L.V. Gromashevsky NAMN of Ukraine Alla Mironenko on April 20 in an interview with RBC-Ukraine. She noted that the spread of coronavirus is now contained in quarantine measures, then there will be a summer during which respiratory infections are not active. I think the peak may be in autumn, Mironenko said. The expert called on the authorities of Ukraine to extend the remote education of schoolchildren until the end of the school year. They already have distance education and let them finish the school year And that all of them gather in the same class or audience it will lead to an escalation of the epidemic situation, she stressed. According to the news agency, over the past 24 hours in Ukraine revealed 260 new cases of infection with coronavirus SARS- CoV -2. A total of 5,710 cases have been confirmed. Read also: More than 100 new cases of coronavirus infection 260 Ukraine in 24 hours