Ukraine has identified 1,199 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours as of 10 a.m. on Aug. 9. There are currently 35,080 active cases across the country.
In the past 24 hours, Ukraine has recorded 18 deaths from COVID-19, 229 patients have been hospitalized and 317 people have recovered.
The largest numbers of new cases were registered in Lviv Oblast (125), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (124), Kharkiv Oblast (123), Kyiv city (120) and Chernivtsi Oblast (104). Of all new COVID-19 cases, 67 were diagnosed among children and 68 among medical workers.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from July 1 to Aug. 8, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health.
“The number of people sick with COVID-19 is rising extremely fast,”Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said at his morning briefing on Aug. 9. “COVID isn’t going anywhere.”
“You see that every day someone gets sick, every day someone dies,” Stepanov said. “Please, don’t ignore the recommendations that the Ministry of Health is making,” he added.
The total number of infections identified in the country since the start of the pandemic stands at 80,949. A total of 43,972 people have recovered and 1,897 have died of the disease.
In total, 14,973 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests were administered across the country during the past 24 hours, Stepanov said during a briefing on Aug. 8. In addition, Ukrainian laboratories carried out 7,015 antibody tests (ELISA).
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between July 1 and Aug. 8, 2020.
Since Aug. 3, new rules for COVID-19 quarantine have come into force in Ukraine: Communities, rather than entire regions, are now divided into green, yellow, orange and red levels of severity of COVID-19 spread. The authorities in districts, cities and towns will have to tighten or relax quarantine restrictions in accordance with these categorizations. The levels are based on four indicators that will be reviewed every five days.
CORONAVIRUS IN UKRAINE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Ukraine introduced four COVID-19 threat levels for cities, communities
- Ukraine extended the so-called “adaptive quarantine” until August 31.
- Ukraine entered the fourth stage of lifting quarantine on June 10.
- Indoor restaurants, domestic flights resumed on June 5, international flights on June 15
- How the Ukrainian government has been responding: TIMELINE
- Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro subways reopened on May 25.
- Why the Kyiv Post isn’t making its coverage free in the times of COVID-19.
- With international travel on hold, Ukrainians prepare to travel across Ukraine
- TripsGuard website tracks coronavirus travel restrictions in 84 nations.
- Where to buy masks.
