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Daily News Daily News · 04/08/2020
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Ukraine decision to classify Hungary as high risk ‘unfounded’, says Transcarpathian association

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The decision by Ukrainian health authorities to classify Hungary as a “red” country in terms of the severity of the coronavirus risk is “professionally unfounded and ill-considered”, the board of the Transcarpathian Hungarian Cultural Association (KMKSZ) said on Monday.

In a statement, KMKSZ said that in addition to Hungary, Ukraine has also classified Slovakia and Poland as “red”, noting that all three countries are regarded by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and other prestigious health organisations as having more favourable epidemiological statistics than Ukraine.

The decision to move Hungary into the high-risk category will put hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian citizens at a disadvantage, KMKSZ said, adding that it could also harm relations between the two countries’ border regions and cause significant economic losses for Ukraine.

  • Coronavirus: Hungary classified as a red country by Ukraine

KMKSZ called on the Ukrainian authorities to revisit their decision and consider internationally accepted factors when gauging the risk of coronavirus infection in the various countries.

“We consider the adherence to the principle of reciprocity important even in this transitional period,” KMKSZ said, noting that Hungary and Ukraine have agreed to allow Hungarian and Ukrainian citizens living within a 30km radius of the border to commute to each other’s countries without having to undergo quarantine.

The Ukrainian government updated its classification of several countries on Aug. 1, moving Hungary, among others, from the “green” to the “red” category.

Moving forward Ukraine will assign a “green” classification only to countries that have not experienced a rise of over 30 percent in the number of registered coronavirus cases and ones where the number of infections per 100,000 people is not higher than in Ukraine.

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2 Comments

  1. Mario says:
    04/08/2020 at 13:26

    If Hungary had a normal government that does not bully its neighbours all the time, with pointless irredentism and sciovinistic propaganda, such little revenges would not occur.

  2. Anon says:
    18/08/2020 at 09:15

    Ukrainian gov. has to be the dumbest gov on the planet. The covid death rate is 0.00004767%. They close the borders for this? More people die of car accidents and diarrhea than this. This and any other tyrannical gov locking down their citizens and destroying their way of life is on borrowed time.

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