No new COVID-19 cases registered in Ukraine

By Interfax-Ukraine.

Published March 12, 2020. Updated March 12 at 7:12 pm

An employee of the Lviv airport checks the body temperature of the child, on March 2, 2020. All passengers have their temperature checked at Ukrainian borders to prevent the spread of coronavirus throughout the country. The global coronavirus pandemic has already hit the aviation industry harder than the global financial crisis in 2008, and local airlines announce more and more flight cancellations.

Photo by UNIAN

The central reference laboratory of the Public Health Center has received 46 samples from people with suspected coronavirus (COVID-19) cases as of 11:00 a.m. on March 12, the Public Health Center reported on Facebook.

All of the samples have been tested: one of them was positive (on March 3) and 45 others are negative, it said.

The Public Health Center recommended Ukrainians to avoid contact with people having symptoms of acute respiratory infection, apply thermal processing to food and immediately call their family doctors in case of first symptoms of acute respiratory infection.