COVID-­19: prevention of infection and spread

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus spreads across the planet, and WHO has declared the COVID-19 outbreak a global health emergency. This pandemic is also relevant for Ukraine, and the issues of spreading, infection prevention, diagnosis, treatment of this disease come up to the fore and give difficult challenges for the medical community and people. 
Objective is analyse the features of prevention of infection and spread of COVID-19 in Ukraine. 
Materials and methods. There are methods of retrospective analysis of medical records of patients, reports of WHO, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, system analysis and logical generalization, bibliosemantic used in the work. 
Results and discussion. The SARS-CoV-2 is a new virus, that causes the development of respiratory diseases in humans (especially severe acute respiratory disease), against which there is no immunity and specific treatment and can be transmitted from person to person. The disease affects all age groups. Elderly people with opportunistic diseases more exposed to severe complications. Immune boost, prevent the spread of infection, vaccination are the best prevention measures of COVID-19. The article contains the main measures of specific, non-specific, individual and collective prevention of infection and spread of COVID-19. 
Conclusions. The risk groups with severe COVID-19 include people over 60 years of age and with opportunistic pathology have been scientifically proven. COVID-19 causes not only lung damage but also multiple organ pathology.