Ukraine’s 16-day lockdown of restaurants and shopping malls starts tomorrow

Ukraine’s 16-day lockdown of restaurants and shopping malls starts tomorrow. Confirmed new coronavirus cases totaled 6,911 yesterday morning – one half the daily average of one month ago. In light of the drop, Ternopil City Mayor Serhiy Nadal said yesterday his city of 223,000 people will ignore the lockdown. Anatoliy Bondarenko, mayor of Cherkasy, a slightly larger city, says he will recommend to his City Council to ignore the lockdown. Nationwide, shopping centers will lose $60 million in rent and their stores will lose $400 million in revenue, Maksym Havriushyn, head of the national Council of Shopping Centers, told Interfax-Ukraine.