Ukraine has registered 2,958 new COVID-19 cases as of 10 a.m. on Sept. 16. In the past 24 hours, 76 people have died, 546 were hospitalized and 1,514 patients have recovered. There are currently 86,996 active cases across the country.
Both the number of deaths and of recoveries break the previous daily records.
In the past 24 hours, laboratories carried out 27,794 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 23,796 antibody tests.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Aug. 1 to Sept. 15, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health. (Bermet Talant)
The highest numbers of new cases were recorded in Ternopil Oblast (380), the city of Kyiv (356), Odesa Oblast (284), Kharkiv Oblast (272), Lviv Oblast (187), and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (167).
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic stands at 162,660. A total of 72,324 patients have recovered and 3,340 have died.
Starting Sept. 14, the following cities are 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 the 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 the “outbreak zoning” to respond to local outbreaks, local authorities have refused to tighten restrictions in some localities, citing the economic burden it would bring to residents. Moreover, city officials of Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Ternopil said they would sue the central government for marking their cities as “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. 15, 2020.
