As many as 8,346 people have contracted COVID-19 in the past day as of 9 a.m. on March 29.
The number of new cases dropped because Ukraine tests fewer people on Saturdays and Sundays.
In the past 24 hours, 178 people have died from the disease, raising the total number of fatalities to 32,132.
Meanwhile, 2,875 people have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1.3 million.
There are currently 316,777 active cases in Ukraine. The country has seen 1.65 million total cases since the pandemic started.
In the past 24 hours, 3,129 people have been hospitalized with the disease.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Lviv Oblast (820), Kharkiv Oblast (664), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (647), Zhytomyr Oblast (567).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Feb 1, 2021 to March 28, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 24,404 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, 5,631 antibody tests, and 9,697 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).
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 28, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
The lockdown in Kyiv will run through April 9. Another large Ukrainian city, Lviv, introduced a two-week lockdown starting March 19. Mykolaiv, a southern city, introduced a lockdown on March 21; Dnipro — on March 25.
Vaccination
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by March 28, a total of 198,464 people have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by India’s Serum Institute. Only one person received two doses of the vaccine so far.
Out of the 1,585 people who received the first of the two required doses of COVID-19 vaccine on March 28, only 20 were in Kyiv. In four oblasts — Donetsk, Luhansk, Rivne, Chernihiv — no vaccinations took place at all on March 28.
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.
