Ukraine has registered 15,415 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on April 7.
In the past 24 hours, 481 people have died from the disease, setting a new record and raising the total number of fatalities to 35,498.
Meanwhile, 11,472 people have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to over 1.36 million.
There are currently 375,230 active cases in Ukraine. The country has seen over 1.75 million total cases since the pandemic started.
In the past 24 hours, 5,587 people have been hospitalized with the disease.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Kyiv (1,417), Odesa Oblast (1,236), Kyiv Oblast (1,092), Lviv Oblast (1,085) and Kharkiv Oblast (1,017).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from March 1, 2021 to April 6, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 59,049 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, 23,778 antibody tests and 29,187 rapid antigen tests in the past day. Over 8.45 million PCR tests have been conducted in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between March 1, 2021 and April 6, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by April 3, a total of 320,263 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. Only 15,585 people were vaccinated in Ukraine on April 5.
The number of daily COVID-19 vaccinations in Ukraine since the vaccination campaign started on Feb. 24. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
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.
Starting March 20, Kyiv is under lockdown in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. From April 5, the capital shuts down all schools and kindergartens. The public transport, including subway, allows only passengers with special permits. The permits are distributed by the city authorities to employees of critical infrastructure.
The lockdown in Kyiv will run at least through April 16.
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.
Eleven regions are in the red zone – Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Chernivtsi Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast and Khmelnytsky Oblast.
President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree that orders the development of a national plan for vaccination of most adults against COVID-19 by the end of 2021.
“In order to reach herd immunity we must vaccinate at least 60%,” Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said at his April 6 morning briefing. “But we want to reach 70%.”
Ukraine is expecting 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from India, which has temporarily halted its exports because of the country’s own demand for vaccines. Stepanov stated that Ukraine’s diplomats are working on getting those vaccines exported to Ukraine.
On April 6, Zelensky said Ukraine reached a deal with Pfizer to receive 10 million doses.
Deputy Minister of Health Yaroslav Kucher urged Ukrainians to follow all the basic coronavirus guidelines, get tested and sign up for vaccination so that Ukraine can fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
