Ukraine has registered 2,266 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on June 4. The total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic has now reached 2.2 million.
In the past 24 hours, 8,291 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 95 have died.
Since the start of the pandemic, 51,054 people have died in Ukraine and over 2.08 million people have recovered from the disease.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Kyiv city (566), Zaporizhia Oblast (230), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (156), Kyiv Oblast (145) and Rivne Oblast (105).
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 28,696 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 11,858 antibody tests in the past 24 hours. Over 10.2 million PCR tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.
In the past 24 hours, 963 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19.
Vaccination
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24, and by June 4, over 1.1 million people have received the first dose of the vaccine, while 142,062 people received both doses.
In the last 24 hours, a total of 46,868 people received the vaccine, including 3,972 who received the second dose.
On May 29, Kyiv launched its first COVID-19 mass vaccination center. It is based inside the International Exhibition Center on Kyiv’s left bank and will be open on the weekends to people who registered for the vaccine waiting list through the Diia mobile app, according to Hromadske Radio. Up to 1,600 people can receive a shot in a single day.
Since April 24, Ukraine has been in the second stage of the vaccination campaign, inoculating medical staff, military service members and people over 80 years old. However, people who fall outside these categories may be able to receive surplus doses. The Health Ministry accepts online and telephone applications from Ukrainians who want to be put on the waiting list for the vaccine.
To date, Ukraine has received less than 2 million doses of vaccine, but more deliveries are scheduled in the coming months.
U.S. pharmaceutical Pfizer will provide 20 million doses of vaccine to Ukraine by the end of 2021, according to the now-former Health Minister Maksym Stepanov.
Ukraine will receive the first 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in June 2021, 4.5 million doses in July-September, and the remaining 15 million doses before the end of the year, according to Stepanov.
On April 23, the country received 367,200 doses in a new batch of AstraZeneca vaccines produced in South Korea. Another batch with 705,600 doses of AstraZeneca have arrived to Ukraine on June 4, according to Health Minister Viktor Lyashko.
On May 14, Lithuania announced it would gift Ukraine 100,000 doses, but did not specify the brand.
The Ministry of Health and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) signed a $90 million agreement to launch the COVID-19 Emergency Response and Vaccination in Ukraine project in Ukraine, as announced by the Ministry of Health on its Facebook page on May 18. Forty million dollars are to be used to purchase the vaccine, $30 million will be allocated for the deployment of vaccination against COVID-19, with the remaining funds used to strengthen the capacity of testing for COVID-19.
Ukraine is also among the countries set to receive a share of the 25 million doses pledged by the U.S. in humanitarian aid, U.S. national security advisor Jake Sullivan announced on June 4.
Lockdown
Currently, all oblasts in Ukraine are in the “yellow” quarantine zone.
None of Ukraine’s 24 oblasts are in the “red” quarantine zone, meaning that none of them have lockdowns.
On May 7, Stepanov said that Ukraine had overcome the third wave of COVID-19.
