Ukraine has registered 19,893 new cases of COVID-19 in the past day as of 9 a.m. on April 2, the highest number of new cases to date.
In the past 24 hours, 433 people have died from the disease, setting a new record and raising the total number of fatalities to 33,679.
Meanwhile, 10,287 people have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to over 1.3 million.
There are currently 344,581 active cases in Ukraine. The country has seen over 1.7 million total cases since the pandemic started.
In the past 24 hours, 5,040 people have been hospitalized with the disease.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Lviv Oblast (1,668), Odesa Oblast (1,608), Kharkiv Oblast (1,494), Khmelnytskyi Oblast (1,351) and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (1,178).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from March 1, 2021 to April 1, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 58,944 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, 22,564 antibody tests, and 47,219 rapid antigen tests in the past day. Over 8.2 million PCR tests have been conducted in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic.
Starting March 20, Kyiv is under lockdown in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. (See the lockdown restrictions). The lockdown in Kyiv will run through April 9.
Moreover, from April 5 until at least April 16, Kyiv will close down all schools and kindergartens, as well as public transport, including the subway.
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 1, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by April 1, a total of 267,831 people have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by India’s Serum Institute. Only two people received two doses of the vaccine so far.
The number of daily COVID-19 vaccinations in Ukraine since the vaccination campaign started on Feb. 24.
On March 1, the Health Ministry started accepting online and telephone applications from Ukrainians who want to be put on the waiting list for the vaccine.
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.
Ten regions are in the red zone – Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Chernivtsy Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Mykolayiv Oblast and Cherkasy Oblast.
