Ukraine has registered 2,462 new COVID-19 cases as of 10 a.m. on Sept. 14. In the past 24 hours, 33 people have died, 360 were hospitalized and 650 patients have recovered. There are currently 84,043 cases across the country.
Laboratories have carried out 14,323 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 1,597 antibody tests.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Aug. 1 to Sept. 13, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health.
The highest numbers of new cases were recorded in Ternopoil Oblast (352), Kharkiv Oblast (269), Odesa Oblast (205), the city of Kyiv (168) and Lviv Oblast (143).
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic stands at 156,797. A total of 69,543 patients have recovered and 3,211 have died.
Starting Sept. 14, the following cities will be marked as having the orange level of COVID-19 threat: Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Lviv, Drohobych, Sumy, Kharkiv, Uzhgorod, Mukachevo, Khmelnytsky, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Irpin, Fastiv, Bersychiv, Korosten, Chornomorsk and a number of administrative districts.
The orange level means local authorities will have to close hostels (but not hotels), gyms, fitness centers and cultural establishments, cancel planned hospitalizations, ban entertainment venues and restaurants at night and limit mass events to a maximum of 100 people on condition that there is no more than one person per 20 square meters.
The cities of Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kolomyya, Kalush, Ternopil, Chortkiv, Berezhany, Dubno, Kaniv, Nizhyn and other administrative districts remain in the red zone, which means the closure of public transport, restaurants, cafes, shopping malls, schools and universities.
However, since the introduction of “outbreak zoning” to respond to local epidemics, local authorities have refused to tighten restrictions in some localities, citing the economic burden it would impose on residents. Moreover, city officials of Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Ternopil said they would sue the central government for marking their cities as in the “red zone.”
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Aug. 1 and Sept. 13, 2020.
