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WHO sees October COVID surge in Ukraine, cites polio concerns

FILE PHOTO: People wear protective face masks as a preventive measure against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while waiting for a bus at a transport stop on a freezing day in Kyiv, Ukraine December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

The World Health Organisation expects a rise in COVID-19 in Ukraine to peak in October, possibly bringing hospitals close to their capacity threshold, WHO's director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday.

"We are now seeing an increase in cases of COVID-19 in Ukraine. We project that transmission could peak in early October and hospitals could approach their capacity threshold," Ghebreyesus told WHO'S Regional Committee for Europe conference in Tel Aviv.

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