City Council denies reports on Kernes' COVID-19 coma / Photo from city.kharkov.ua
The official disappeared from the public spotlight three weeks ago.
Kharkiv City Council has officially denied reports that Kharkiv Mayor Hennadiy Kernes has allegedly gone into a coma.
The official is indeed on sick leave, but he in "full control of the situation in the city," an official statement posted on the city council's website says.
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"The reports disseminated by certain Kharkiv-based websites alleging that Kharkiv mayor Hennadiy Kernes is in a coma are false," it said.
Kharkiv City Council says such deliberately false reports are instigated by "the aggravation of not very successful politicians' presumption."