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9.1.3​ Transport sector news
Ukraine closes three quarters of its 219 land border checkpoints on March 13​ in an effort to isolate the country from coronavirus, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal told reporters Wednesday. Quarantine areas are being established at the 49 land border crossings that remain open. In addition, the country closes all schools and bans mass events involving more that 200 people through early April. In shopping centres, entertainment areas and movie theaters will close. Mass transit is to continue normally -- with overnight sterilizing of trains, trams and buses.
● Planes
For the first time in a century, Ukraine has only one functioning airport on March 25​ -- Kyiv Boryspil. In a ban reminiscent of Soviet days, Ukrainians now are prohibited from taking tourists flights out of the country. With Kyiv Boryspil a ghost town, Terminal D is closed and the few arriving planes go to Terminal B, the original Soviet terminal. SkyBus service and Boryspil Express trains have stopped.
Ukraine’s aviation industry – largely airlines and airports – could lose $500 million during the first quarter of this year​, warns the Aviation Committee of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Air links between Ukraine and Italy are ‘de facto’ suspended, ​Shmygal said. SkyUp, Ukraine’s discount airline, is postponing the start of service to five new Italian cities to late May/early June. The government will spend $4mn to buy gloves, masks, protective suits and infrared screening equipment for Kyiv Boryspil airport. New steps will be posted on Ukraine’s Health Ministry site here.
53​ UKRAINE Country Report​ April 2018 ​ ​www.intellinews.com