A police officer holds an umbrella over participants during a rally of parents demanding to ease anti-virus restrictions and reopen kindergartens that took place outside the Cabinet of Ministers headquarters in Kyiv on May 19, 2020.
Ukraine will extend its COVID-19 quarantine measures to June 22 but start lifting more severe restrictions this week. The opening of some public places including beaches and parks, as well as barber shops, hairdressers, beauty salons and outdoor dining areas has already seen a degree of normality return to life in the capital Kyiv and elsewhere, but public transport has remained closed for weeks.
More restrictions will be lifted on May 22 that allow for the opening of kindergartens, gyms and hotels, but fears of a possible second wave of coronavirus infections has prompted the Ukrainian government and others elsewhere to keep an “adaptive lockdown” in effect to June 22 while it carries on monitoring the epidemic in Ukraine.
