Chief State Sanitary Doctor Viktor Lyashko says Ukraine is entering the second stage of responding to the spread of coronavirus infection.

He announced this at a briefing. " We continue to expand and increase the number of beds in healthcare facilities to which patients with coronavirus disease will be hospitalized.

I emphasize again: from Monday all planned operations, planned hospitalizations are prohibited.. Hospitals accept exclusively urgent patients and patients with coronavirus disease. The situation is extremely tense, "

According to him, the healthcare system has been tasked with increasing the number of beds in hospitals for receiving patients with coronavirus to 80 thousand..

Moreover, 60 thousand. beds must be provided with oxygen.

Lyashko stressed that the third stage of the response is the deployment of temporary hospitals for patients with coronavirus infection.

“We must do everything we can to ensure that the healthcare system does not collapse. We can only do this if we adhere to anti-epidemic standards.. I ask you to treat with understanding the anti-epidemic restrictions that the government is introducing, "

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