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True dimensions of epidemic in Ukraine remain a mystery

President Volodymyr Zelensky gave lip service to the coronavirus threat two months ago, was slow to move and has delivered mixed messages to the nation. Ukraine’s incompetent bureaucracy rapid production of tests for the virus. Stockpiles of crucial medical materials were limited and exported abroad. Regional hospitals were left to fend for themselves when tens of thousands of migrant Ukrainian workers returned from abroad.

On April 6, Ukraine’s Deputy Health Minister and Chief Sanitary Doctor Viktor Liashko said the country is in the early stage of the COVID-19 epidemic, noting that spread of the virus here lags two to three weeks behind European countries.

“Today we are considering scenarios that took place in Italy, Spain and France. If look at the number of tests conducted in these countries during the period of the epidemic Ukraine is currently in, we are not conducting that many fewer tests than they were," Liashko said.

Ukraine has sufficient number of tests to determine how …