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Zelensky in hospital as Ukraine tightened restrictions
Summary
A look back at how two pandemic developments in Ukraine fell within a single 48-hour span in November 2020.
What did Ukraine's pandemic response look like on 12 November 2020? On that day, the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was reported to be in hospital after contracting COVID-19 earlier in the week.
The news arrived a day after a separate decision by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. On 11 November 2020, the cabinet cancelled the adaptive quarantine and introduced a weekend lockdown.
Taken together, the two developments marked a notable moment in Ukraine's handling of the pandemic. The government had moved to a stricter regime, and the head of state was himself among those affected by the virus.
The reports from those two days give a compact picture of the period: a policy change announced on 11 November, and a presidential hospitalisation reported on 12 November.
