Former Ukrainian Premier Tymoshenko Tests Positive for Coronavirus

Former Ukrainian Premier Tymoshenko Tests Positive for Coronavirus
Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko addresses the parliament in Kiev on March 3, 2010. Sergei Supinsky /AFP via Getty Images
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KYIV—Former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko has tested positive for the novel coronavirus and is in serious condition with a fever, her party’s spokeswoman said on Sunday.

Tymoshenko, 59, who twice served as premier before her defeat in the 2010 presidential election, became the first high-profile Ukrainian politician known to have contracted COVID-19. Parliament has been on summer vacation since mid-July.