Ukraine has registered 11,226 new cases of COVID-19 in the past day as of 9 a.m. on March 31.
In the past 24 hours, 407 people have died from the disease, setting a new record and raising the total number of fatalities to 32,825.
Meanwhile, 6,405 people have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1.3 million.
There are currently 327,862 active cases in Ukraine. The country has seen 1.67 million total cases since the pandemic started.
In the past 24 hours, 5,558 people have been hospitalized with the disease.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (1,100), Odesa Oblast (1,012), Kharkiv Oblast (906), Lviv Oblast (833) and Zaporizhzhia Oblast (737).
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 61,839 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, 21,984 antibody tests, and 55,401 rapid antigen tests in the past day. Over 8 million PCR tests have been conducted in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic.
Starting March 20, Kyiv is under lockdown in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. (See the lockdown restrictions). The lockdown in Kyiv will run through April 9.
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by March 30, a total of 231,566 people have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by India’s Serum Institute. Only two people received two doses of the vaccine so far.
On March 1, the Health Ministry started accepting online and telephone applications from Ukrainians who want to be put on the waiting list for the vaccine.
Ukraine remains in adaptive quarantine, where each oblast is assigned one of four epidemiological levels, depending on the COVID-19 situation there. There are green, yellow, orange and red levels. A red status means that a lockdown will be imposed locally.
Ten regions are in the red zone – Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Chernivtsy Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Mykolayiv Oblast and Cherkasy Oblast.