Ukraine recorded 3,774 new COVID-19 cases as of 9 a.m. on Oct. 5, bringing the national total to 230,236.
The number of country’s daily cases surpassed 4,000 on Sept. 29 and have been growing for four days, reaching a record-high 4,661 on Oct. 3. The drop in new daily cases and recoveries is seen every weekend due to reduced testing.
In the past 24 hours, laboratories have carried out 15,646 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests. This is about 5,000–10,000 fewer than the number of tests administered on a weekday.
There are currently 124,554 active cases in the country.
In the past 24 hours, 33 people have died, 475 have been admitted to hospitals, and 1,145 have recovered. A total of 101,252 patients have recovered and 4,430 have died since the beginning of the pandemic.
Weekly infection numbers show that western Ukrainian regions are no longer the coronavirus hotspots, and the pandemic is rapidly expanding to the east.
In the past 24 hours, the largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Kharkiv Oblast (446), the city of Kyiv (286), Sumy Oblast (282), Donetsk Oblast (226), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (206), and Zhytomyr Oblast (185).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Sept. 1 to Oct. 4, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health. (Kyiv Post)
According to Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov, the number of patients with COVID-19 in the country’s hospitals has already reached 16,745 people. This is five times more than in mid-July, Stepanov said during the briefing on Oct.5. Officially, the maximum number of patients with COVID-19 that can be treated in Ukraine’s hospitals is 37,000.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Sept. 1 and Oct. 4, 2020. (Kyiv Post)
