Ukraine has registered 244 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on July 5.
The total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic is over 2.2 million.
In the past 24 hours, 419 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 14 have died.
Since the start of the pandemic, 52,484 people have died in Ukraine and 2.2 million people have recovered from the disease.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (101), Kyiv Oblast (15), Zhytomyr Oblast (17), Odesa Oblast (16), Vinnytsia Oblast (11).
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 9,889 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 1,712 antibody tests in the past 24 hours.
Over 10.9 million PCR tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.
State of vaccination
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24, and by July 4 over 2 million people have received the first dose of the vaccine. 850,394 of them received both doses.
In the last 24 hours, a total of 24,363 people received the vaccine, including 9,103 who received the second dose thus completed vaccination.
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.
In several cities, including Kyiv, anyone registered to be vaccinated through the government app Diya can get vaccinated on the weekends at one of the country’s 50 mass vaccination centers. Kyiv’s mass vaccination center is based inside the International Exhibition Center near the Livoberezhna metro station.
Ukraine currently vaccinates its people with Pfizer, Sinovac, and AstraZeneca vaccines.
U.S. pharmaceutical Pfizer will provide 20 million doses of vaccine to Ukraine by the end of 2021, according to the health ministry.
The latest delivery of vaccines took place on June 9, when 66,690 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, purchased with state funds, were delivered in Ukraine. A day before UNICEF delivered 117,000 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to Ukraine as part of the global COVAX initiative. The country is expecting 473,850 more doses soon.
Ukraine also received 705,600 doses of AstraZeneca on June 4. These vaccines will mostly be used to inoculate those who received their first dose of AstraZeneca before.
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, 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.
Quarantine restrictions eased