“I made a very difficult decision for myself - I turned to the President of Ukraine, informed the Prime Minister and the head of the National Security and Defense Council about the need to introduce a state of emergency on the territory of the Chernivtsi region,” RIA Novosti quotes Kaspruk as saying on the Ukraine 24 television channel.

It is clarified that in the Chernivtsi region recorded the largest number of cases of COVID-2019 infections in Ukraine.

Earlier in Kiev, as well as in the Dnipropetrovsk and Ivano-Frankivsk regions of Ukraine, an emergency mode was introduced in connection with the spread of coronavirus infection COVID-19.