KIEV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s parliament on Monday approved the appointment of a new finance minister and health minister.
Serhiy Marchenko, deputy finance minister in 2016-2018 and deputy head of the presidential office of Petro Poroshenko in 2018-2019, was appointed as the new finance minister. He replaced Ihor Umansky, who had been in office for less than a month.
Former Odessa governor Maksym Stepanov was approved as the health minister of the country which has reported nearly 500 coronavirus cases, including 11 deaths.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; editing by Matthias Williams)
