Ukraine has registered 2,966 new COVID-19 cases as of 10 a.m. on Sept. 20. In the past 24 hours, 41 people have died, 548 were hospitalized and 758 patients have recovered. There are currently 94,609 active cases across the country.
The highest numbers of new cases were recorded in Kharkiv Oblast (424), the city of Kyiv (343), Ternopil Oblast (231), Odesa Oblast (217), Lviv Oblast (188) and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (170).
In the past 24 hours, laboratories have carried out 23,927 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 7,760 antibody tests.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Aug. 1 to Sept. 19, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health. (Bermet Talant)
The total number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic stands at 175,678. A total of 77,512 patients have recovered and 3,557 have died.
According to Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov, the ministry has introduced new changes on COVID-19 testing. From now on, there is no need to do another PCR test for a person after 14 days of self-isolation if all symptoms of the disease are gone, Stepanov said during the briefing on Sept. 19.
On Sept. 16, the Health Ministry said that a red level of epidemiological risk will be introduced in regions if the number of COVID-19 patients is more than five times higher than the nationwide average or if at least 75% of hospital beds are occupied for five days in a row.
From now on, decisions on introducing the red level will be made jointly by national and regional commissions for technological and environmental safety and emergencies. Previously such decisions were made only by the national authorities.
Current zones
Starting Sept. 14, the following cities were 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, Kolomyya, Kalush, 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.
At the same time, the cities of Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Izmail and few others left the red zone and entered the orange one, Stepanov said during his briefing on Sept. 19. However, as of Sept. 18, the incidence rate in Ternopil was almost five times higher than country’s average.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Aug. 16 and Sept. 19, 2020.
