COVID-19 in Ukraine: Record-high 3,144 new cases, Kyiv to enter orange zone

Ukraine has registered 3,144 new COVID-19 cases as of 9 a.m. on Sept. 11. Currently, there are 78,675 active cases across the country.

In the past 24 hours, 53 people have died, 508 were hospitalized and 1,128 patients have recovered. In total, 3,285 people are suspected of having COVID-19.

Laboratories carried out 27,945 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 22,953 antibody tests.

The highest numbers of new cases were recorded in Kyiv city (404), Ternopil Oblast (302), Odesa Oblast (283), Kharkiv Oblast (280), Khmelmytsky Oblast (198), Lviv Oblast (174), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (151), Rivne Oblast (144) and Chernivtsi Oblast (132).

Starting Sept. 14, the following cities will be marked as having the orange level of COVID-19 threat: Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Lviv, Drohobych, Sumy, Kharkiv, Uzhgorod, Mukachevo, Khmelnytsky, Kamyanets-Podilsky, Irpin, Fastiv, Bersychiv, Korosten, Chornomorsk and a number of administrative districts.

The orange level means the local authorities will have to close hostels (but not hotels), gyms, fitness centers and cultural establishments, cancel planned hospitalizations, ban entertainment venues and restaurants at night and limit mass events to a maximum of 100 people on condition that there is no more than one person per 20 square meters.

The cities of Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kolomyya, Kalush, Ternopil, Chortkiv, Berezhany, Dubno, Kaniv, Nizhyn and other administrative districts remain in the red zone.

The red level means the closure of public transport, restaurants, cafes, shopping centers, schools and universities. However, since the introduction of the “outbreak zoning” to respond to local outbreaks, local authorities have refused to tighten restrictions in some localities, citing the economic burden it would bring to residents. Moreover, city officials of Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Ternopil said they would sue the central government for marking their cities as “red zone.”

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic stands at 148,756. A total of 67,005 patients have recovered and 3,076 have died.

Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Aug. 1 to Sept. 10, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health.

Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Aug. 1 and Sept. , 2020.