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Zelensky in hospital as Ukraine tightened restrictions
Summary
A look back at two pandemic developments in Ukraine reported on 11 and 12 November 2020.
What did Ukraine's pandemic response look like on 12 November 2020? It was a day on which the president himself was in hospital with COVID-19.
President Volodymyr Zelensky was hospitalised on 12 November 2020, after contracting the virus earlier that week. The report placed the Ukrainian leader among those affected by the pandemic then moving through Europe.
The previous day, 11 November 2020, the Cabinet of Ministers had scrapped the adaptive quarantine and introduced a weekend lockdown. The change replaced the existing quarantine framework with restrictions aimed at weekends.
Taken together, the two developments fell within 24 hours of each other: a tightening of the national quarantine regime on 11 November, and the hospitalisation of the head of state on 12 November.
