According to him, there are currently more than 47 thousand patients with coronavirus in medical institutions of the country.
“We have maximized the number of beds with oxygen - up to 67 thousand. This is a certain limit - there is nowhere to increase further, because other diseases did not go on vacation,” said the Minister of Health of Ukraine during the briefing.
Stepanov said that the total occupancy of beds with oxygen is about 58%, but their occupancy is growing.
“If you look at where the most tense situation is - Kiev, Khmelnytsky, Nikolaev and Zhytomyr regions ... The epidemiological situation is quite complicated, it is on the verge of criticality,” he concluded.
Earlier, the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, Dmitry Razumkov, admitted the possibility of introducing a state of emergency in Ukraine due to COVID-19.