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The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has increased from 40 to 55 active patients with COVID-19 per 100,000 people the indicator for the distribution of countries into the “red” and “green” zones.

The government approved the relevant resolution with revision at a meeting on July 15.

“The draft act proposes to establish that states with a significant spread of COVID-19 are considered to be those states where the number of active cases of COVID-19 disease exceeds 55 people per 100,000 of population. Previously, this figure was 40. We set it when there were 37 active patients per 100,000 of population in Ukraine. At present, this figure is 62 in Ukraine,” Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov said during the meeting.

As reported, people from the countries of the “green” zone, where the number of active COVID-19 cases is less than 40 per 100,000 of population, are allowed into Ukraine without self-isolation or observation.

As of July 9, the “red” zone (indicator over 40 per 100,000 of population) included: French Guiana, the United States, Panama, Armenia, Oman, Belgium, Peru, Bahrain, Bolivia, Brazil, Honduras, Kuwait, Sao Tome and Principe, South Africa, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Dominican Republic, Northern Macedonia, Ecuador, Israel, Moldova, Equatorial Guinea, Russia, Cape Verde, Gabon, Colombia, Portugal, Chile, Belarus, Guatemala, Turks and Caicos, Argentina, United Arab Emirates, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, France, Palestine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Seychelles, Luxembourg, Mayotte, Costa Rica, Canada, Singapore, Iraq, Mauritania, Central African Republic, Maldives, Mexico, Bangladesh, Egypt, Guinea Bissau, Salvador, Pakistan, Esvatini, Albania, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic.

As of July 9, the following countries: Pakistan, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Albania, Esvatini, El Salvador, Guinea-Bissau, Egypt and Bangladesh were included into the “green” zone.