Ukraine has registered 15,292 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on March 20. The total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic is 1.53 million.
There are currently 251,471 active cases in Ukraine.
In the past 24 hours, 5,190 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 260 have died. Over 1.25 million people have recovered from COVID-19 and 29,775 have died since the pandemic hit Ukraine.
In the past 24 hours, 4,369 people have been hospitalized with COVID-19.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Feb 1, 2021 to March 19, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 50,800 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, 23,398 antibody tests and 40,521 rapid antigen tests in the past day. Over 7.6 million PCR tests have been conducted in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (1,070), Lviv Oblast (1,180), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (1,104), Zhytomyr Oblast (1,082), and Odesa Oblast (1,037).
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 19, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Starting on March 20, Kyiv is under a lockdown in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations.
The lockdown in Kyiv will run through April 9. Another large Ukrainian city, Lviv, introduced a two-week lockdown starting March 19.
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 27 and by March 19, a total of 104,341 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.
To date, Ukraine has received 500,000 doses of vaccine produced by India’s Serum Institute. Ukraine has ordered a total of 17 million doses from India, including vaccines developed by British-Swedish pharmaceutical AstraZeneca and U.S. biotech firm Novavax. Altogether, Ukraine expects to receive around 22 million doses in 2021.
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.
Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said that Ukraine’s vaccination drive was unacceptably slow. The government had planned for 10,000 vaccinations per day in the first weeks, while in reality, the pace was 5-10 times slower.
Meanwhile, 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.
Five regions are now in the red zone – Kyiv Oblast, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsy and Zakarpattia, as well as the city of Kyiv.
On March 4, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Ukraine has entered the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The prime minister didn’t rule out the possibility of another nationwide lockdown. Ukraine had only two nationwide lockdowns: in March-May 2020, and in January 2021.
