Coronavirus infections and deaths in Ukraine have surged to all-time highs amid a laggard pace of vaccination, which is one of the lowest in Europe. Ukrainian authorities reported 22,415 new confirmed infections and 546 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Despite the rising contagion, the government has been reluctant to introduce another lockdown, trying to avoid further damage to the economy weakened by the conflict with neighboring Russia, which annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and threw its weight behind a separatist insurgency in the country’s eastern industrial heartland.
To encourage vaccination, the authorities have started offering shots in shopping malls. As infections soared, skeptical attitudes began to change and a record number of more than 251,000 people received vaccines over the past 24 hours. Onuchko noted that many Ukrainians have been disinformed by conspiracy theories about vaccines, but now take a more reasonable approach as the situation exacerbates. “People have been scared by stories ... but the real threat must make them sober up,” he said.
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