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KYIV (Reuters) - While vaccinations against the coronavirus gather pace in other parts of Europe, doctors at Kyiv City Clinical Hospital 17 are still waiting.
In the COVID emergency ward, three patients lie quietly on beds, breathing through ventilators. One has a portrait of himself, drawn by his grandson, pasted above his bed as a get-well-soon message.
Half the department’s staff have been infected at some point and there are still personnel shortages, according to department head Sergiy Dubrov.
“I don’t know all the details about the negotiations and all procurement procedures, but I can say as a simple doctor and as a Ukrainian citizen, that I don’t think that Ukraine did a great job,” said Dubrov, after tending to the patients.
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PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian couple Leang Phannara and Kim Bethyliza were elated when they could finally wed last Friday after the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions in the country.
Cambodia has been spared the worst of the coronavirus pandemic with fewer than 500 cases and no deaths, but lockdowns and bans on gatherings disrupted lives and left the pair forced to delay their wedding several times.
“We were able to marry in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic because restrictions were lifted, due to our country not having a large number of infections,” said Phannara, the 31-year-old groom.
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