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The load of beds for patients with COVID-19 is currently 50-60% in Ukraine, but there are some specific problems in the regions, Deputy Minister of Health, Chief Sanitary Doctor Ihor Kuzin said.

“Now the occupancy of beds due to COVID-19 is at the level of 50-60% and we are now trying to keep the situation within this interval. However, there are regions where there is an excess in different areas and where the occupancy of hospitals is higher,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Oct. 18.

Kuzin noted that hospitals in which the occupancy of COVID beds is higher than 60% “are quickly unloaded in manual mode”, in particular, due to changes in patient routes.

“We see local overloads of hospitals, because either they cover a large area, or a large number of people were hospitalized there,” he said.

According to Kuzin, “in some regions there were problems with oxygen in certain hospitals, which were associated with logistical problems.”

Kuzin said that in order to “lower such indicators of the incidence, such regions are transferred to the red level of epidemic danger.”

“The situation is generally under control, there is no overload, but there are some problems,” he said.