Financial aid for quarantine-hit businesses will be allocated from anti-covid-19 fund

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26 November 2020, 01:04

At the same time, the source did not specify the overall amount to be allocated.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on November 24, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced introduction of five programs to assist entrepreneurs including one-off payment of UAH 8,000 in case of quarantine shutdown; a compensation of expenditures for payment of unified social tax; annulment of the tax debt of almost 4 million citizens having the debt of UAH 3,000; exemption of all taxes and fees for 20,000 private entrepreneurs of the first group in case the quarantine measures are toughened.

On November 23, the number of newly-registered Covid-19 cases in Ukraine rose by 13,882 over November 22 to 661,858, and the number of deaths rose by 229 over November 22 to 11,492; at the same time, the number of new cases increased by 12.9%, and the number of new lethal cases rose by 21.8%.

According to the report, as at the morning of November 24, there were 661,858 laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 cases registered in Ukraine, the number included 11,492 lethal cases; besides, 307,778 people had recovered.

On November 23, a total of 13,882 new cases of the disease were recorded, 229 people died, and 8,420 people recovered.

Therefore, as at November 23, the indicator of newly-infected people was higher than the number of those, who recovered (13,882 vs 8,420).

The number of the active sick (only those sick) as at November 25, made 342,588 people, up 1.6% day over day.

Since the start of the epidemic, the largest number of coronavirus-infected people has been registered in the city of Kyiv (62,620), Kharkiv region (52,538), and Lviv region (42,874).

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