Ukraine to raise epidemic status from September 23

22 September 2021

The Ukrainian government decided on Sept. 21 to raise the COVID epidemic level to Yellow across the country. The change will take effect on Sept. 23, the Cabinet of Ministers announced on its website. As of Sept. 22, only two oblasts are registering COVID cases below this level, and 6754 new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours.

 

Restrictions will be in place for those who have not been vaccinated. However, this situation is complicated by fraud. In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, a doctor and her accomplice were arrested for providing fake vaccination certificates. They also offered inputting the buyers’ names into the Ministry of Health vaccination database for a total price of UAH 6,000, pravda.com.ua reports.

 

James Hydzik: The problem of fake certificates can be found the world over, but registration into the vaccination database is at a different level. This points not to fear of vaccination on the part of the doctor, but opportunism and a disregard for losing her position brought on by low pay first and foremost. The problem is an old one, but the political will to restructure the pay of highly educated workers in state-run institutions is low.