In Kharkiv, the situation with the spread of COVID-19 is more tense than last autumn, but not as difficult as it was in the spring wave.
“We crossed the line of autumn wave of 2020, but have not yet reached the level of spring wave of 2021,” deputy mayor of Kharkiv Svitlana Horbunova-Ruban said at a briefing on Oct. 11.
She said that if at the peak of the spring wave there were 5,723 patients with COVID-19 in the city, now 4,763 people are sick (of which 901 people are hospitalized).
According to Horbunova-Ruban, almost 500 more beds were deployed in the city’s medical institutions over the weekend (300 in hospital No. 8 and 190 in hospital No. 18), thus the total number of beds for COVID patients in city hospitals is more than 1,500.
