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State Commission On Technogenic And Environmental Safety And Emergencies Classifies Poltava Region As "Red" Zo

State Commission On Technogenic And Environmental Safety And Emergencies Classifies Poltava Region As "Red" Zone Of Epidemic Danger From April 15

The State Commission on Technogenic and Environmental Safety and Emergencies has classified Poltava region as a "red" zone of epidemic danger from April 15.

Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers Oleh Nemchinov announced this in his Telegram channel, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

"An extraordinary meeting of the State Commission on Technogenic and Environmental Safety and Emergencies was held today. Based on the results, the State Commission decided to establish: from 00:00 a.m. on April 15, the "red" level of the epidemic danger of the spread of COVID-19 in Poltava region," he wrote.

Thus, on the territory of Poltava region, restrictive anti-epidemic measures provided for the "red" level of epidemic danger should be introduced.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, the State Commission on Technogenic and Environmental Safety and Emergencies previously classified the city of Kyiv, Kyiv, Lviv, Sumy, Odesa, Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, Chernivtsi, Chernihiv, Zaporizhia, Kharkiv and Khmelnytskyi regions to the "red" epidemiological zone.

The Ministry of Health previously announced that it intends to initiate the introduction of a lockdown throughout the country in the case that more than 13 regions are classified in the "red" zone of epidemic danger.

On April 7, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said that at the moment there is no need to introduce a lockdown throughout Ukraine.