Red Cross to deliver supplies for COVID-19 patients in separatist eastern Ukraine

Staff load cargo sent by the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) to Ukraine into a cargo plane, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, at Cointrin Airport in Geneva, Switzerland, April 1, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

GENEVA (Reuters) - A planeload of medical supplies for COVID-19 patients and other relief goods has arrived in Ukraine to help people enduring a six-year-old conflict in the country's east, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday.

Eastern Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatists emerged in 2014, reported its first coronavirus infection on Tuesday and the ICRC said several more cases had been confirmed there since.