The chief sanitary doctor spoke about the new wave of coronovirus
In Ukraine, the number of patients with coronavirus infection is increasing.
Chief sanitary doctor Igor Kuzin said this in an interview with Ukrinform.
Kuzin said that with the onset of autumn, the number of people infected with coronavirus is gradually increasing.
We are gradually registering more and more relative indicators in terms of the number of patients. For example, over the past week it was 9.1 thousand, now it is 11.5 thousand who were diagnosed with COVID-19 and sick... If earlier we recorded an average of less than 1 thousand hospitalizations per week, then for This number has been rising over the past few weeks. The week before last, it was 2.6 thousand, now about 3.1 thousand patients are hospitalized with a diagnosis of COVID-19 during the week, the chief sanitary stressed.
For the third year in a row, in September, there is an increase in the incidence of COVID-19, which will begin to subside in March-April or early May, Kuzin explained. The health care system must cope with this wave, the health officer said.
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