The Ukrainian Minister of Health Zoriana Skaletska said on Sunday evening on her Facebook page that the Ministry of Health had begun to meet people from planes arriving from China.
We met the first plane from the Chinese city of Sanya, which all passengers were checked. It had 150 passengers and a crew, none of them suffirng from Coronavirus, therfore were admitted to the territory of Ukraine.
In the future, at Boryspil Airport, all direct flights from China will undergo temperature screening of the body. This screening is carried out by specialists of the sanitary-quarantine unit of the Ministry of Health with infrared thermometers. “Health Minister Wrote on Facebook.
According to Skaletska, a specialized deputy minister was at the airport, who checked the work of the medical service and the availability of isolation wards, in case a coronavirus patient was identified.
“I want to thank all the doctors who are on duty at the airport and hospitals, in order to calmly and carefully approach all patients with suspected coronavirus, this is the main importance for protecting Ukrainian health”, Skaletskaya Said.
