Ukraine has registered 12,711 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on April 24, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to more than 2 million.
In the past 24 hours, 13,687 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 392 have died.
Since the start of the pandemic, 42,092 people have died in Ukraine and more than 1.5 million people have recovered from the disease.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from March 1, 2021 to April 23, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (1,268), the city of Kyiv (1,027), Kharkiv Oblast (964), Odesa Oblast (841), and Kyiv Oblast (815).
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 40,734 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 17,731 antibody tests in the past 24 hours. Over 9.2 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 23, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
In the past 24 hours, 3,508 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19. On average, 4,500-5,000 Ukrainians per day were taken to the hospital with the coronavirus in March and April.
Ukraine’s health system can handle no more than 7,000 daily hospitalizations, deputy health minister and chief sanitary doctor Viktor Lyashko said on April 10.
Vaccination
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by April 23, a total of 522,383 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; 14,339 people were vaccinated in Ukraine on April 23.
Ukraine received 326,200 AstraZeneca’s vaccines produced in South Korea, Liashko said during the morning briefing on April 23.
This batch of vaccines will mostly be used for people age 60 years and older, as well as for people who already received the first dose. For this, there will be 1,950 vaccination points open in Ukrainian oblasts.
The Health Ministry accepts online and telephone applications from Ukrainians who want to be put on the waiting list for the vaccine. As of April 24, Ukraine is in the second stage of the vaccination campaign, inoculating medical staff, military, and people over 80 years old. However, people who fall outside these categories may be able to receive surplus doses.
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.
Ukraine’s medical system will be able to buy more vaccines and equipment to store and transport them thanks to an $89 million loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Deputy Minister of Health Svitlana Shatalova said during the morning briefing on April 22.
Ukraine currently administers vaccines from three producers: AstraZeneca, Sinovac and Pfizer.
The country received 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine in February and already used up most of it.
Ukraine has 215,000 doses of Sinovac’s Chinese-made Coronavac vaccine and expects to receive 1.7 million doses more. Only certain groups can get a Coronavac jab, including people with disabilities and those who take care of them, Ukrainians involved in organizing university entrance exams that take place in May-July, Olympic and Paralympic athletes and police officers.
Starting April 14-15, Ukraine distributed 117,000 doses of U.S.-made Pfizer vaccine to nursing homes, customs employees and emergency services.
Lockdown
Since March 20, Kyiv has been under a lockdown in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. On April 5, the capital shut down all schools and kindergartens. Public transport, including the subway, allows only passengers who work in critical infrastructure, with special permits from the city.
The lockdown will run throughout April 30.
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.
Twelve regions are in the red zone – Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Zaporizhia Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Khmelnytsky Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast and Chernivtsi Oblast.
