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The government also plans to allocate money for additional payments to health care workers and representatives of other specialties involved in countering the spread of coronavirus.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine creates a stabilization fund to deal with the effects of coronavirus infection.
"Today we will decide on the creation of a stabilization fund for the state... Today it [the coronavirus] is the main challenge to which we must give a worthy answer," Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said during an opening speech at today's government meeting.
The prime minister added that the government also planned to allocate money for additional payments to health care workers and representatives of other specialties involved in countering the spread of coronavirus.
As UNIAN reported earlier, as of the morning of Wednesday, March 18, a total of 198,006 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 coronavirus were recorded worldwide.
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An outbreak of a novel coronavirus was recorded late December 2019 in the most populous city of Central China, Wuhan. The World Health Organization recognized it as a global emergency, describing it as a multi-cell epidemic.
To date, 14 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in Ukraine, two of which are lethal.
The country has declared a nationwide quarantine, which will last until April 3.