Ukraine has registered 5,372 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on May 9, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to 2.1 million.
In the past 24 hours, 9,181 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 193 have died.
Since the start of the pandemic, 46,393 people have died in Ukraine and more than 1.7 million people have recovered from the disease.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from March 1, 2021 to May 8, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (798), Donetsk Oblast (401), Kharkiv Oblast (361), Odesa Oblast (342) and Lviv Oblast (329).
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 21,796 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 4,859 antibody tests in the past 24 hours. Over 9.6 million PCR tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.
In the past 24 hours, 2,599 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between March 1, 2021 and May 8, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Vaccination
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by May 8, a total of 862,641 people have received the first dose of the vaccine, while 446 people received two doses of the vaccine (of whom, two people received their first doses abroad).
U.S. pharmaceutical Pfizer will provide another batch of 10 million doses of vaccine to Ukraine, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov announced on May 1. The additional doses come on top of up to 10 million doses that Pfizer agreed to supply to the country in April.
Ukraine will receive the first 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in May-June 2021, 4.5 million doses in July-September, and the remaining 15 million doses — before the end of the year.
The number of daily COVID-19 vaccinations in Ukraine since the vaccination campaign started on Feb. 24. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
The country received a new batch of AstraZeneca vaccines produced in South Korea on April 23 — 367,200 doses.
Ukraine currently administers vaccines from three producers: AstraZeneca, SinoVac and Pfizer.
The Health Ministry accepts online and telephone applications from Ukrainians who want to be put on the waiting list for the vaccine. Since April 24, Ukraine has been in the second stage of the vaccination campaign, inoculating medical staff, military and people over 80 years old. However, people who fall outside these categories may be able to receive surplus doses.
Lockdown
From March 20 to April 30, Kyiv had been under a lockdown in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. Most quarantine restrictions were lifted on May 1 in Kyiv. Restaurants, stores and gyms reopened.
On May 7, Heath Minister Maksym Stepanov said that Ukraine had overcome the third wave of COVID-19.
Most of Ukrainian oblasts, 23 out of 24, have moved out from the “red” quarantine zone. The only remaining oblast, Sumska, is expected to follow soon, Deputy Health Minister Viktor Liashko said on May 7.
