Ukraine has registered 16,235 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on April 22, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to almost 2 million.
In the past 24 hours, 18,831 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 470 have died.
Over 1.5 million people have recovered from COVID-19 and 41,266 have died since the pandemic hit Ukraine.
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 46,516 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 17,644 antibody tests in the past 24 hours. Over 9 million PCR tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from March 1, 2021 to April 21, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (1,673), Kharkiv Oblast (1,333), Zaporizhzhia Oblast (995), Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (976), Kyiv Oblast (877).
In the past 24 hours, 3,904 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19. On average, 4,500-5,000 Ukrainians per day were taken to the hospital with the coronavirus in March and April.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between March 1, 2021 and April 21, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Ukraine’s health system can handle no more than 7,000 daily hospitalizations, deputy health minister and chief sanitary doctor Viktor Lyashko said on April 10.
Vaccination
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by April 20, a total of 491,875 people have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by India’s Serum Institute. Only five people received two doses of the vaccine so far; 14,044 people were vaccinated in Ukraine on April 21.
The Health Ministry accepts online and telephone applications from Ukrainians who want to be put on the waiting list for the vaccine. As of April 19, Ukraine is 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.
The number of daily COVID-19 vaccinations in Ukraine since the vaccination campaign started on Feb. 24. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Ukraine’s medical system will be able to buy more vaccines, equipment for their storage and transportation as the Cabinet of Ministers agreed $89 million loan from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for this, Deputy Minister of Health Svitlana Shatalova said during the morning briefing on April 22..
Ukraine currently vaccinates its citizens with vaccines from three producers: AstraZeneca, Sinovac and Pfizer.
The country received 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine in February and already used up most of it.
Ukraine has 215,000 doses of Sinovac’s Chinese-made Coronavac vaccine and expects to receive 1.7 million doses more. Only certain groups can get a Coronavac jab, including people with disabilities and those who take care of them, Ukrainians involved in organizing university entrance exams that take place in May-July, Olympic and Paralympic athletes and police officers.
Starting April 14-15, Ukraine will also distribute 117,000 doses of U.S.-made Pfizer vaccine to nursing homes, customs employees and emergency services.
Lockdown
Since March 20, Kyiv has been under a lockdown in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. On April 5, the capital shut down all schools and kindergartens. Public transport, including the subway, allows only passengers who work in critical infrastructure, with special permits from the city.
The lockdown will run throughout April 30.
Ukraine remains in adaptive quarantine, where each oblast is assigned one of four epidemiological levels, depending on the COVID-19 situation there. There are green, yellow, orange and red levels. A red status means that a lockdown will be imposed locally.
Twelve regions are in the red zone – Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Zaporizhia Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Khmelnytsky Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast and Chernivtsi Oblast.
