Ukraine has registered 4,285 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on March 1, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to over 1.3 million.
In the past 24 hours, 1,701 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 68 have died. Over 1.17 million people have recovered from COVID-19 and 26,050 have died since the pandemic hit Ukraine.
The latest figures for COVID-19 vaccinations in the past 24 hours have not been released yet. However, 90 people were given their first dose of vaccine against Coronavirus on Feb. 27, bringing the total number of Ukrainians who received their first dose to 3,141 as of Feb. 28.
The latest vaccinations were administered to people in Donetsk Oblast (50), Luhansk Oblast (20) and Kherson Oblast (20).
To date, Ukraine has received 500,000 doses of vaccine produced by India’s Serum Institute. Ukraine has ordered a total of 17 million doses from India, including vaccines developed by British-Swedish pharmaceutical AstraZeneca and U.S. biotech firm Novavax.
In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 15,394 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, 2,621 antibody tests and 5,051 rapid antigen tests. Over 6.9 million PCR tests have been conducted in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Vinnytsya Oblast (598), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (526), Zhytomyr Oblast (466), Chernivtsi Oblast (335) and Lviv Oblast (315).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Jan. 10, 2021 to Feb. 28, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
On Jan. 25, Ukraine reopened after the lockdown that has been in place since Jan. 8. The work of all non-essential businesses has now resumed.
According to a law passed by the government on Jan. 13, businesses have to refuse to service any customer who’s not wearing a mask and call the police if the person refuses to put it on. A mask has to cover both the nose and mouth.
Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said that the ministry had no plans to impose a new country-wide lockdown in March or April because the January lockdown yielded good results and stabilized the situation. Still, on Feb. 17, Stepanov said that Ukraine will extend its COVID-19 quarantine restrictions until April 30.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Jan. 23, 2020 and Feb. 28, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Starting Feb. 24, the country returned to a so-called “adaptive quarantine” where each oblast is assigned one of four epidemiological levels, depending on the COVID-19 situation there. There are green, yellow, orange and red levels. A red status means that a lockdown will be imposed locally.
Initially, all of Ukraine was designated yellow, meaning most of the current restrictions will stay in force.
Three Ukrainian oblasts, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia, had to shut down their entertainment businesses and restaurants for a week starting Feb. 22 because of spikes in their numbers of cases, Deputy Health Minister Viktor Lyashko said on Feb. 19.
Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast has also imposed the “red” quarantine level, shutting down all the non-essential businesses and banning mass events on Feb. 22-28.
