Ukraine has registered 12,112 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on April 10, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to over 1.8 million.
In the past 24 hours, 4,048 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 235 have died.
Over 1.4 million people have recovered from COVID-19 and 37,014 have died since the pandemic hit Ukraine.
There are currently 405,375 active cases in Ukraine.
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 34,461 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 8,379 antibody tests in the past 24 hours. Over 8.6 million PCR tests have been conducted 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 10, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Kharkiv (1,374), Dnipropetrovsk (1,333), Donetsk (839), Khmelnytsky (811) and Lviv (720) oblasts.
In the past 24 hours, 4,694 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19. On average, 4,500-5,000 Ukrainians were taken to the hospital with the coronavirus per day in March and April.
Ukraine’s health system can handle no more than 7,000 daily hospitalizations, said deputy health minister and chief sanitary doctor Viktor Liashko on April 10.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from March 1, 2021 to April 10, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by April 11, a total of 377,050 people have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by India’s Serum Institute. Only five people received two doses of the vaccine so far; 4,048 people were vaccinated in Ukraine on April 9.
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 on April 13, Ukraine can start vaccinating its citizens with Chinese Coronavac vaccine, Liashko said. Now Ukraine has 215,000 dozes of this vaccine.
Only certain kinds of people can get a Coronavac jab, including people with disabilities and those who take care of them, Ukrainians involved in organizing university entrance exams, Olympic and Paralympic athletes and police officers.
Starting April 14-15, Ukraine will distribute 117,000 dozes of U.S. Pfizer vaccine to nursing homes for the elderly, customs employees and emergency services.
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.
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 the 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, Chernivtsi Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, Cherkasy Oblast, Khmelnytsky Oblast and Kharkiv Oblast.
Meanwhile, the Kyiv city administration announced that it’s extending quarantine restrictions in the capital until April 23.
