Disrupting many families’ winter break vacation plans, restaurants, cafes and entertainment venues close today through Sunday in Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Zakarpattia regions.

Disrupting many families’ winter break vacation plans, restaurants, cafes and entertainment venues close today through Sunday in Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Zakarpattia regions. Due to an upsurge in coronavirus cases, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast is shutting non-essential businesses and banning mass events. Bukovel ski area is allowed to operate this week with ‘social distancing.’ With coronavirus hospital wards 70% full, Ivano-Frankivsk region is operating 16 road checkpoints to check travelers entering and leaving the region. Ukraine is to start vaccinating against coronavirus next month.