Due to the situation with COVID-19, Ukraine cannot do without a lockdown, since it is no longer possible to counteract the spread of infection in other ways.
About this in an interview UNN said infectious disease doctor, freelance advisor Ministry of Health Of Ukraine Olga Golubovskaya… “Now we need to prepare for the future. Nothing can be done with the coronavirus,” she said.
The expert believes that hospitals now need to stock up on oxygen cylinders and “just save people.”
“Counteraction is no longer possible, testing is no longer possible. The whole world is testing and let them test themselves – they can afford it,” the doctor said.
As for the new strict quarantine, then, as Golubovskaya noted, it must be introduced competently: talk with epidemiologists, transfer everyone to work online as much as possible, and schools – to distance learning.
“This is one of the nurseries of infectious diseases. Our education has been suffering since the 90s and nothing will happen in a year, but what is happening in clinics now is beyond the mind, this is Borodino,” the doctor emphasized.
She pointed to the fact that she has long been in favor of a new lockdown “Good people, get ready to die at home then,” Golubovskaya said emotionally.
“You see that now we simply cannot do without a lockdown … We all need to go through this period now. And if we now correctly impose restrictive measures, then all the same, the intensive care units will be overcrowded for three weeks. got sick. And we have not been given another, “she said.
At the same time, Golubovskaya believes that transport can work. “Of course, everyone can stay at home, must stay at home. Now it is possible to organize the delivery of food. Schools and universities should be closed. Only medical personnel should be left to work for a month,” said the infectious disease specialist.
According to her, in hospitals, “the sick are already lying side by side, like on a battlefield: both dead and alive.” She called the situation a nightmare.
“Leave medical institutions to work and provide them with services. Do people need to get to work somehow?” – she explained the position regarding transport.
In an interview, Golubovskaya also said that our country is going through the most difficult period since the beginning of the pandemic, and the current wave of COVID-19 is about five times more intense in intensity than the autumn one. She is gave the reasons for this.
As he wrote OBOZREVATEL, earlier Golubovskaya said that the introduction of a hard lockdown is very important for the effective fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, even when mass vaccinated against coronavirus.
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