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14 regions have already fully paid allowance for March to doctors who worked with patients with COVID-19, the rest of the regions will pay in the coming days. At the same time, the regions began paying allowance for April. This was announced by the Ministry of Health at the traditional conference call on the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 chaired by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the Bykivnia Graves National Historic Memorial and took part in the measures dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions.

Fourteen regions have already paid all allowances of up to 300% for March to doctors working directly with patients with COVID-19. This was announced by Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov at a traditional meeting chaired by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on preventing the spread of the coronavirus epidemic and overcoming its consequences.

The Ministry of Health of Ukraine gets ready to approve an algorithm for mass ELISA diagnostics to detect COVID-19 antibodies. This was announced by Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov at a traditional meeting chaired by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy on preventing the spread of coronavirus.

Allowances for March are already being paid to health workers for treating patients with coronavirus. This process is planned to be completed in the near future. The Head of State instructed to control allowances of up to 300% for April, which are carried out according to the new financial formula. To do this, all relevant hospitals must enter into agreements with the National Health Service of Ukraine.

The parties expressed content with the coordination of actions of both states in the issues of mutual evacuation of citizens, which became an example of successful bilateral cooperation in overcoming the consequences of the spread of COVID-19.

At an extraordinary session of the Verkhovna Rada, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on parliamentarians to support the bill improving the mechanisms regulating banking activities. People's deputies approved this document by 270 votes.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a conference call with Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Heads of Regional State Administrations, Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov and First Deputy Head of the President’s Office Serhiy Trofimov on the payment of supplements to doctors who work directly with patients infected with COVID-19.

The President's Office hosted a traditional conference call chaired by Volodymyr Zelenskyy on preventing the spread of coronavirus. It was attended by representatives of the Cabinet of Ministers and law enforcement agencies.

"We discussed a number of credit support programs for small and micro businesses, because they suffer the most from quarantine. We need to help them now and after quarantine so that they can recover quickly. We need to offer them so-called payment holidays," Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.