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Then-President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, in 2014
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Former President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, contracted the coronavirus.
This was announced by his wife Marina in a video shared by Poroshenko's party on Facebook.
Accordingly, the 55-year-old was taken to a hospital, he had bilateral pneumonia.
One of the two daughters had also tested positive for the corona virus.
Poroshenko ruled Ukraine from 2014 to 2019.
In August, ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko fell ill with Covid-19.
She was also treated in a clinic, which she has since left.
In Ukraine, the number of infections has been increasing for weeks.
With 92 deaths and 4,661 new infections, the authorities reported record values on Saturday.
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