In two weeks, the incidence of COVID-19 in the region decreased by 30%, the press service of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration reports..

The epidemic situation in the Kharkiv region was discussed at a meeting of the regional commission on technogenic and environmental safety and emergency situations.

The meeting of the commission was held under the leadership of the First Deputy Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Tatyana Egorova-Lutsenko.

She noted that the strengthening of quarantine measures in the territory of the Kharkiv region has a positive effect: in the region, a trend towards a decrease in the incidence of COVID-19 is recorded..

So, according to the data that led during the meeting and.

director general of the regional laboratory center Lyubov Makhota, over the past two weeks, 4277 cases of COVID-19 have been laboratory confirmed in the region, which is 158.7 per 100 thousand. population.

" In the city of Kharkov, this figure is less: here the incidence in the last two weeks has decreased by 17.3%. In the districts of the region, the downward tendencies are more pronounced, but the situation remains tense in the cities of Izyum and Pervomaisky, Lozovsky and Balakley districts, ”said Lyubov Makhota.