Ukraine has registered 2,208 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on May 11, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to 2.1 million.
In the past 24 hours, 8,617 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 119 have died.
Since the start of the pandemic, 46,631 people have died in Ukraine and more than 1.7 million people have recovered from the disease.
The country has seen a steep decline in the number of new cases during the long weekend of May 8-10 as fewer people were getting tested for coronavirus.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from March 1, 2021 to May 10, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Donetsk Oblast (325), Kharkiv Oblast (213), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (191), Zaporizhzhia Oblast (169) and Mykolaiv Oblast (132).
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 13,349 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 3,467 antibody tests in the past 24 hours. Over 9.6 million PCR tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.
In the past 24 hours, 1,084 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19.
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 May 10, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Vaccination
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24, and by May 9, a total of 865,588 people have received the first dose of the vaccine, while 695 people received two doses of the vaccine (of whom, two people received their first doses abroad).
U.S. pharmaceutical Pfizer will provide another batch of 10 million doses of vaccine to Ukraine, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov announced on May 1. The additional doses come on top of up to 10 million doses that Pfizer agreed to supply to the country in April.
Ukraine will receive the first 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in May-June 2021, 4.5 million doses in July-September, and the remaining 15 million doses — before the end of the year.
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.
The country received a new batch of AstraZeneca vaccines produced in South Korea on April 23 — 367,200 doses.
Ukraine currently administers vaccines from three producers: AstraZeneca, Sinovac and Pfizer.
The Health Ministry accepts online and telephone applications from Ukrainians who want to be put on the waiting list for the vaccine. Since April 24, Ukraine has been 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.
Lockdown
From March 20 to April 30, Kyiv had been under a lockdown in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. Most quarantine restrictions were lifted on May 1 in Kyiv. Restaurants, stores and gyms reopened.
On May 7, Heath Minister Stepanov said that Ukraine had overcome the third wave of COVID-19.
Currently, none of Ukraine’s 24 oblasts are in the “red” quarantine zone, meaning that none of them have lockdowns.
