Ukraine has registered 10,611 new COVID-19 cases as of 9 a.m. on Nov. 11, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to 489,808.
In the past 24 hours, 191 people have died of the disease and 1,453 were hospitalized, while 6,802 have recovered.
A total of 221,459 patients have recovered and 8,947 have died in Ukraine since the beginning of the pandemic.
There are currently 259,402 active cases of COVID-19 across Ukraine.
In the past 24 hours, the largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (965), Odesa Oblast (705), Kyiv Oblast (693), Lviv Oblast (684), Zaporizhzhia Oblast (592) and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (589).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Oct. 1 to Nov. 10, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health. (Bermet Talant)
In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 43,908 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 29,377 antibody tests.
Ukraine is currently the 13th country in the world by the number of new daily cases. Ukraine is only the 47th country in the world by population.
“The virus has become more aggressive. That is, the number of critically severely ill patients is increasing,” Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said during his Nov. 11 briefing. “This is happening across the country.”
On Nov. 9, President Volodymyr Zelensky, his Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak, and a number of government officials reported that they have tested positive for COVID-19. They include Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko and Defense Minister Andriy Taran.
On Nov. 10, Stepanov reaffirmed the government’s resolve to impose a “weekend lockdown,” when non-essential shops, cafes and restaurants will be ordered to close on Saturdays and Sundays.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Oct. 1 and Nov. 10, 2020.
On Nov. 9, Stepanov specified the Ministry’s three criteria that determine when a person can stop their self-quarantine after contracting COVID-19. One of the criteria is a negative PCR-test, while the others are equivalent, he said.
This means that a person can stop their self-quarantine if they meet at least one of three criteria. The three criteria are:
- No clinical symptoms of acute respiratory disease and a negative PCR-test.
- No clinical symptoms of acute respiratory disease for three days, counting from the 10th day from the date of the first symptoms without laboratory examination.
- No clinical symptoms of acute respiratory disease for three days counting from the 10th day after a PCR test that eventually yielded a positive result, and without another PCR test to confirm that one has recovered.
On Nov. 6, Stepanov said that there are 52,000 hospital beds in Ukraine for treating COVID-19 patients. As of Oct. 25, 23,266 of them were occupied by patients diagnosed with or suspected of having COVID-19. As of Nov. 1, that number had increased to 26,593.
As of Nov. 3, about 18,500 hospital beds were supplied with oxygen, and, within the month, the Health Ministry plans to increase this to at least 40,000.
On Nov. 2, the Health Ministry launched an additional national coronavirus contact center that works around the clock, because regional hotlines are stretched to their limits. Employees of the contact center advise people on questions about COVID-19 and organizational issues related to how to treat the disease.
The phone number is +380800602019.
