Today the Health Ministry is calculating how many patients per day, within one-two weeks, will lead to 100% bed occupancy.
Ukraine's Deputy Health Minister, Chief Medical Officer Viktor Liashko has said there is no need yet to reimpose a second national coronavirus lockdown.
However, in case when all beds allocated for hospitalization of COVID-19 patients are completely occupied, Ukraine will be forced to reimpose a lockdown, he told the Ukrayinska Pravda.Life online newspaper in an interview.
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"The quarantine [originally introduced in Ukraine from March 12 to April 3, 2020] has worked 100%. The system was prepared, there was no outbreak, there was no [critical level of] fatalities, and now we are ready to continue working when the number of cases has increased, without significantly affecting the economy amid the adaptive quarantine [introduced on May 22]," he said.
Today the Health Ministry is calculating how many patients per day, within one-two weeks, will lead to 100% bed occupancy, the official said.
"For example, if we talk about some figure X. Two weeks is an incubation period on average. Then, as a medical officer, I will say: look, we have reached this figure, we have two weeks left, and we have no other choice but to follow the example of Israel, Madrid, Paris, and impose strict, quarantine-based, restrictive measures. Here it will no longer be possible to find a balance between the economy and saving lives," Liashko added.