All checkpoints on Ukrainian border to be provided with express tests for COVID-19 in a week - NSDC secretary
All checkpoints on the Ukrainian state border will be provided with express tests for COVID-19 coronavirus in a week, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said.
"All checkpoints must be provided with express tests in a week, everyone will be able to take these express tests. It will apply to all border checkpoints that will remain [functioning] at the time in our country. And all medical establishments will be required to have these tests," Danilov told a briefing after the NSDC meeting in Kyiv on Friday.
The situation with the coronavirus in the country now is "rather calm" and there are only three cases in Ukraine: one in the Zhytomyr region and two in the Chernivtsi region, he said.
In the meantime, it was reported on Friday that a resident of the Zhytomyr region had died of the coronavirus. It is the first death from the novel infection in Ukraine.
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