Ukraine is suffering through a devastating COVID-19 wave spurred by distrust of vaccines.
KIEV - A young woman sobs and comforts her mother on a bench in a courtyard at Kiev's Hospital Number Four.
"Five of our patients have died since yesterday," hospital director Tetiana Mostepan, whose 455 COVID-19 beds are 70% full, told AFP.The country of around 40 million reported 720 new daily COVID deaths on Wednesday, the third-highest number in the world after the United States and Russia.
Last week, President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded with Ukrainians to ignore the noise and get vaccinated.But at Hospital Number Four, construction worker Sergiy Tsaryk said he had no plans to be vaccinated, even after contracting COVID-19 and needing treatment. Yuliya Vakulenko, the chief of one of its intensive care units, said she "understands" the fears of some of her fellow Ukrainians.
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