Inter-regional public transport to require COVID certificates

12 October 2021

The Health Ministry announced on Oct. 11 that restrictions on travel between oblasts at the yellow COVID level or higher would begin on Oct. 21. For travel between oblasts at the yellow level, a document certifying a single dose of a recognized two-dose vaccine or a recent PCR test would be sufficient to permit travel. To travel between oblasts at orange or red COVID levels, a full course of vaccination or a recent PCR test would be required. The rule applies for travel by public air, rail and road transport.

 

James Hydzik: Health Minister Viktor Lyashko is in a better position to make such rules, given that the vaccines were not available within Ukraine during the last coronavirus wave. However, the quiet manner in which it was done, and without pressure from municipal leaders, who had clamoured for such restrictions previously, speaks well for the current mode of operation in the ministry.