The number of COVID-19 case in Ukraine has increased to over 160.
On the morning of March 26, Ukraine’s Ministry of Health reported that there were 156 cases in the country. According to the ministry, 46 new cases have been detected in the past 24 hours.
Shortly thereafter, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced that the number of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ukraine’s capital had increased by six to a total of 40. If confirmed by the health ministry, that would bring the total number of cases in Ukraine to 162.
Among the new patients in Kyiv are a 35-year-old woman and five men ranging from 28 to 70 years of age. Four patients have been hospitalized in Kyiv’s Oleksandrivska Clinical Hospital and one, a 70-year-old military serviceman, has been placed in a military hospital. The sixth patient is quarantining at home, the UkrInform news agency reported, citing Klitschko.
Earlier, at 10:00 p.m. on March 25, the ministry announced the number of laboratory-confirmed cases had reached 145.
Globally, more than 472,000 people have been infected with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Over 21,000 have died.
Five people have died from COVID-19 in Ukraine. One patient has officially recovered and been released from the hospital.
The health ministry has now registered the infection in 15 out of the country’s 24 oblasts and the capital.
Besides the city of Kyiv, the largest number of infections have been detected in western Chernivtsi Oblast (42 cases) and Kyiv Oblast (24 cases).
COVID-19 has also spread rapidly in Ternopil Oblast, which registered 15 cases over the course of six days since the first infection was confirmed in the region.
The health ministry says it has received a total of 1,124 reports of suspected coronavirus cases, 183 of which were sent in the past day.
CORONAVIRUS IN UKRAINE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Ukraine has extended its quarantine measures until April 24.
- The measures shuttered most everything but hospitals, supermarkets, pharmacies, banks, gas stations and other critical enterprises.
- There have been 156 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ukraine. The first case was identified on March 3.
- Five people have died from COVID-19 in Ukraine. One person recovered.
- Three Ukrainians died from COVID-19 in Italy.
- How the Ukrainian government has been responding: TIMELINE
- Misinformation on coronavirus is going viral in Ukraine.
- Doctor’s advice: How to stay safe.
- Foreign Ministry: What you need to know about traveling to and from Ukraine now
- Why the Kyiv Post isn’t making its coverage free in the times of COVID-19.
Effects on economy:
- Here’s what the virus is doing to Ukraine’s economy.
- Ukrainian businesses respond to the crisis.
- The virus disrupts the transport sector. Ukrainian airlines canceled some flights to 16 countries due to the novel coronavirus.
- The National Bank of Ukraine continued to cut the policy rate while trying to buffer the hryvnia from coronavirus panic.
- The former minister of economy says half a million Ukrainians may lose their jobs in the COVID-19 crisis.
