Ukraine has registered 7,562 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on May 14, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to 2.1 million.
In the past 24 hours, 15,958 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 287 have died.
Since the start of the pandemic, 47,620 people have died in Ukraine and more than 1.8 million people have recovered from the disease.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (681), Kharkiv Oblast (665), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (487), Cherkasy Oblast (449) and Donetsk (445) Oblast.
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 33,889 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 14,118 antibody tests in the past 24 hours. Over 9.7 million PCR tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.
In the past 24 hours, 2,195 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19.
Vaccination
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24, and by May 12, a total of 918,162 people have received the first dose of the vaccine, while 4,530 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 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 was 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 Stepanov said that Ukraine had overcome the third wave of COVID-19.
Currently, none of Ukraine’s 24 oblasts are in the “red” quarantine zone, meaning that none of them have lockdowns.