Ukraine has registered 17,569 new cases of COVID-19 in the past day as of 9 a.m. on April 1.
In the past 24 hours, 421 people have died from the disease, setting a new record and raising the total number of fatalities to 33,246.
Meanwhile, 9,602 people have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1.3 million.
There are currently 335,408 active cases in Ukraine. The country has seen 1.69 million total cases since the pandemic started.
In the past 24 hours, 5,160 people have been hospitalized with the disease.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (1,150), Odesa Oblast (1,305), Khmelnytskyi Oblast (1,142), Lviv Oblast (1,141) and Zhytomyr Oblast (1,037).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Feb 1, 2021 to March 31, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 59,803 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, 22,276 antibody tests, and 50,680 rapid antigen tests in the past day. Over 8.1 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.
Moreover, from April 5 until at least April 16, Kyiv will close down all schools and kindergartens, as well as public transport, including the subway.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Feb. 1, 2021 and March 31, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by March 30, a total of 248,734 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.
The number of daily COVID-19 vaccinations in Ukraine since the vaccination campaign started on Feb. 24.
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.
