Ukraine’s Coronavirus Cases Exceed 1 Million

Ukraine’s coronavirus case-count surpassed 1 million, pushing the country past a grim benchmark as its dilapidated health-care system struggles to contain a pre-holiday surge in the disease.

Despite mobilizing its resources when the disease first struck in March, including establishing special wards and retraining health workers to treat Covid-19 patients, hospitals are at risk of being overrun. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government has also tried to walk a fine line between fighting the virus without a repeat of the economic damage wreaked by a strict spring lockdown.