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LVIV, Ukraine -- With millions of people fleeing the Russian invasion, with health systems disrupted, and with testing and vaccination programs suspended in many places, health officials fear that conditions in Ukraine risk accelerating the spread of the coronavirus.
LVIV, Ukraine -- With millions of people fleeing the Russian invasion, with health systems disrupted, and with testing and vaccination programs suspended in many places, health officials fear that conditions in Ukraine risk accelerating the spread of the coronavirus.
War has pushed Covid out of people’s minds while forcing them into crowded and unsanitary conditions that are fertile ground for the coronavirus, polio and other pathogens.
The last thing on anybody’s mind these days in Ukraine seems to be COVID-19. With millions of people on the move fleeing the Russian invasion, health systems disrupted, and testing and vaccination programs suspended in many places, health officials fear that conditions could spread disease. But the pandemic, they said, was no longer a top priority. “People are not frightened about COVID anymore,” said Dr. Marta Saiko, head of the therapy department at the Clinical Municipal Emergency Hospital here in western Ukraine. “People are frightened of the war.”