Ukraine has registered another record breaking 4,753 new COVID-19 cases as of 9 a.m. on Oct. 7, bringing the national total to 239,337.
In the past 24 hours, laboratories have carried out highest daily number of 32,376 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests during the pandemic. According to Minister of Health Maksym Stepanov, Ukraine should do at least 50,000 PCR tests by the beginning of December.
There are currently 128,770 active cases in the country.
In the past 24 hours, 77 people have died, 730 have been admitted to hospitals, and record 2,569 have recovered. A total of 105,970 patients have recovered and 4,597 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 (685), the city of Kyiv (383), Odesa Oblast (316), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (316), Donetsk Oblast (263), and Cherkasy Oblast (230).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Sept. 1 to Oct. 6, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health. (Kyiv Post)
According to Stepanov, the number of patients with COVID-19 in the country’s hospitals has reached 18,039 people as of Oct. 7. It is expected that the number of daily cases detected in the country will surpass 5,000 this week, Stepanov said during the briefing day earlier. 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. 6, 2020. (Kyiv Post)
