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A nurse cares for a patient suspected of suffering from pneumonia at a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv All educational institutions and kindergartens will resume work on Wednesday, November 25.

The state anti-epidemic committee took the relevant decision at its sitting on Friday, the press service of the Kyiv City State Administration reported.

"The quarantine at all schools and higher educational institutions of Kyiv will end on November 25. The work of all kindergartens will be resumed," First Deputy Head of Kyiv City State Administration Irena Kylchytska said.

According to her, the committee has taken this decision because the infection rate of flu and acute respiratory disease has decreased among the population of the city.

The chief state sanitary doctor of Kyiv on November 19 sent Kyiv Mayor Leonid Chernovetsky a proposal to end the quarantine at educational institutions of the city on November 25.