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Patients with mild coronavirus disease will not be hospitalized — Ministry of Health

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The country is introducing clinical triage of people infected with the coronavirus.

Ukraine will not hospitalize people with a mild course of coronavirus disease. This was announced at a briefing by Deputy Health Minister and Chief State Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine Viktor Lyashko.

"From today, Ukraine will work according to new medical care standards. We are introducing clinical triage: we will hospitalize only patients with moderate and severe forms of the disease. All others should be treated on an outpatient basis under supervision and medical and sanitary monitoring," — he said.

According to Viktor Lyashko, over the past day the largest number of new infections in Ukraine were among people aged 31 to 40 — 22% of the 109 cases recorded.

Also, of all those infected (418 cases), 65% are citizens aged 31 to 60. Children under 10 account for 5.4% of cases.

Map of coronavirus spread in Ukraine (updated in real time)