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Kyiv mayor insists on imposing quarantine in capital
November 06, 2009 at 14:16 | Interfax-UkraineAccording to him, the Health Ministry has refused to impose quarantine in Kyiv.
"I don't understand the reasons why quarantine wasn't imposed. I think that we will continue the fight so that a quarantine is announced in Kyiv, until the Health Ministry decides on the vaccination of Kyiv residents," Chernovetsky said.
"I think, while we are finding out what we are facing with, this is a pandemic and quarantine should have been imposed in Kyiv, as well as in other regions," he added.
"A quarantine regime will let me close night clubs and other mass, scale events in Kyiv, and the person who doesn't understand that this should be done could be held responsible for the consequences," the mayor said.
Chernovetsky explained that quarantine is needed because every day hundreds of people arrive in Kyiv, in particular, via railway stations, bus terminals and airports.
At the same time, according to him, the number of people on public transport has decreased by 30%, many people are using gauze masks.
He also reported that in Kyiv, as well as in other cities, there is a problem with medication, as "the two month reserve of medicines has been purchased from drugstores," but currently the government is doing everything possible so as to import medications.
Chernovetsky also said that Kyiv mayor's office had asked cities abroad to provide humanitarian aid.