Ukraine has registered 8,687 new COVID-19 cases as of 9 a.m. on Nov. 9, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to 469,018.
In the past 24 hours, 115 people have died of the disease and 1,100 were hospitalized, while 2,277 have recovered.
A total of 209,143 patients have recovered and 8,565 have died in Ukraine since the beginning of the pandemic.
There are currently 251,310 active cases of COVID-19 across Ukraine.
In the past 24 hours, the largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (748), Kharkiv Oblast (717), Zaporizhzhia Oblast (683), Zhytomyr Oblast (636) and Kyiv Oblast (590).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Sept. 16 to Nov. 8, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health. (Bermet Talant)
In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 34,393 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 6,721 antibody tests.
For three days in a row, Ukraine is the 10th country in the world in terms of new daily cases. Ukraine is only the 47th country in the world by population.
During his Nov. 9 briefing, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov reaffirmed the government’s resolve to impose a “weekend lockdown,” when non-essential shops, cafes and restaurants will be ordered to close on Saturdays and Sundays.
Stepanov also specified the Ministry’s three criteria that determine when a person can stop their self-quarantine after contracting COVID-19. One of the criteria is a negative PCR-test, while the others are equivalent, he said. This means that a person can stop their self-quarantine if they meet at least one of the the criteria. The three criteria are:
- No clinical symptoms of acute respiratory disease and a negative PCR-test.
- No clinical symptoms of acute respiratory disease for three days, counting from the 10th day from the date of the first symptoms without laboratory examination.
- No clinical symptoms of acute respiratory disease for three days counting from the 10th day after the sampling for a PCR test that turned out to be positive, and without another PCR test to confirm that one has recovered.
On Nov. 6, Stepanov said that there are 52,000 hospital beds in Ukraine for treating COVID-19 patients. As of Oct. 25, 23,266 of them were occupied by patients diagnosed with or suspected of having COVID-19. As of Nov. 1, that number has increased to 26,593.
As of Nov. 3, about 18,500 hospital beds are supplied with oxygen, and, within the month, the Health Ministry plans to increase this to at least 40,000.
On Nov. 2, the Health Ministry launched an additional national coronavirus contact center that works round the clock, because regional hotlines are stretched to their limits. Employees of the contact center advise people on questions about COVID-19 and organizational issues related to how to treat the disease.
The phone number is +380800602019.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Oct. 1 and Nov. 8, 2020.
