Ukraine has registered 8,199 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on Jan. 15, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to over 1.14 million.
In the past 24 hours, 10,328 patients have recovered and 166 have died.
A total of 847,391 patients have recovered and 20,542 have died in Ukraine since the beginning of the pandemic.
In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 30,225 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 19,371 antibody tests. Over 5.9 million PCR tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Dec. 1, 2020 and Jan. 14, 2021.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (896), Zaporizhia Oblast (629), Donetsk Oblast (443), Lviv Oblast (525) and Mykolayiv Oblast (489).
Starting on Jan. 14, Ukraine will fine business owners if their employees or customers don’t wear face masks. The fines can range between $122 and $183.
According to the law passed by the government on Jan. 13, when employees notice a customer without a mask, they have to stop servicing them and call the police if the person refuses to put on their mask. A mask has to cover both the nose and mouth.
During the briefing on Jan. 13, Ukrainian Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said that Ukraine will be under quarantine until Feb. 28. Meanwhile, strict quarantine, when all non-essential businesses are closed, will last until Jan. 24.
Here’s a full list of businesses that will be closed.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Healthcare will not cancel the lockdown earlier because that could increase the burden on the country’s hospitals, Stepanov said. According to him, the number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine is expected to go up after the winter holidays because many Ukrainians traveled across the cities, visited New Year’s celebrations and didn’t follow quarantine rules.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Dec. 1, 2020 to Jan. 14, 2021. All data were released by the Ministry of Health.
