Ukraine has identified a record-breaking 1,732 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours as of 9 a.m. on Aug. 13. There are currently 39,064 active cases across the country.
In the past 24 hours, Ukraine has recorded 19 deaths from COVID-19, 330 patients have been hospitalized — also a record number — and 581 people have recovered.
“For the second day in a row, we see a rise in hospitalizations,” Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said during his morning briefing on Aug. 14. “We very quickly reached the milestone of 300 hospitalizations a day yesterday. Today, we have 330.”
“We want to provide medical help to everyone who needs it on time. This depends on how many hospital beds are available. We have been preparing for this for four months, we were buying lung ventilators and other equipment… but, trust me, we don’t have any other option but to follow the rules of quarantine,” he added.
The largest numbers of new cases were registered in Kharkiv Oblast (205), Lviv Oblast (184), Odesa Oblast (160), the city of Kyiv (158), Chernivtsi Oblast (154) and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (143).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from July 1 to Aug. 13, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health.
The total number of infections identified in the country since the start of the pandemic stands at 87,872. A total of 46,797 people have recovered and 2,011 have died of the disease.
During the past 24 hours, laboratories have administered 18,917 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests across the country, Stepanov said during a briefing on Aug. 14. Additionally, they also carried out 16,320 antibody tests (ELISA).
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between July 1 and Aug. 13, 2020.
Since Aug. 3, new rules for COVID-19 quarantine have come into force in Ukraine: Communities, rather than entire regions, are now divided into green, yellow, orange and red levels of severity of COVID-19 spread. The authorities in districts, cities and towns will have to tighten or relax quarantine restrictions in accordance with these categorizations. The levels are based on four indicators that will be reviewed every five days.
CORONAVIRUS IN UKRAINE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Ukraine introduced four COVID-19 threat levels for cities, communities
- Ukraine extended the so-called “adaptive quarantine” until August 31.
- Ukraine entered the fourth stage of lifting quarantine on June 10.
- Indoor restaurants, domestic flights resumed on June 5, international flights on June 15
- How the Ukrainian government has been responding: TIMELINE
- Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro subways reopened on May 25.
- Why the Kyiv Post isn’t making its coverage free in the times of COVID-19.
- With international travel on hold, Ukrainians prepare to travel across Ukraine
- TripsGuard website tracks coronavirus travel restrictions in 84 nations.
- Where to buy masks.
