The epidemiological situation in Kyiv city, Lviv and Odesa regions has improved and meets the Health Ministry criteria, while indicators in Kharkiv and Ternopil regions as of July 6 exceed the permissible norms, according to data published on July 6 on the Ukrainian Health Ministry’s website.
In Kyiv, the dynamics of the incidence rate decreased from 14.57% (as of July 5) to 7.58% with a permissible rate of 10%. In Lviv region, the percentage of detection decreased from 11.28% to 10.92%. In Odesa region testing coverage increased.
At the same time, eight regions (Volyn, Donetsk, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Ternopil, Kharkiv and Chernihiv) do not meet the indicators necessary to remove quarantine restrictions. In particular, in Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil regions, the dynamics of the spread of the disease exceeds the established value of 10%.
Test coverage for COVID-19 is below the established value in Donetsk and Chernihiv regions.
The percentage of detection of the disease is higher than the established value of 11% in Volyn, Donetsk, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne and Kharkiv regions.
As of June 22, it was reported that a region with a widespread of COVID-19 is considered to be a region in which there is one of the following symptoms: the workload of beds in health facilities that are determined to hospitalize patients with a confirmed case of COVID-19 is more than 50%, the average number of PCR and ELISA tests is less than 24 per 100,000 population over the past seven days, the detection rate of cases of COVID-19 infection is more than 11%, COVID-19 infection growth rate is more than 10%. The COVID-19 infection growth rate indicator is used if more than eight cases are recorded per 100,000 people in total over the past seven days.
Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers decided that the strengthening of anti-epidemic measures is applied and ceases in the region or in separate administrative-territorial units on the basis of a decision of regional commissions dealing with manmade and environmental disasters and emergencies, which is adopted on the proposal of the chief state sanitary doctor of the region.
If the epidemic situation in the region is consistent with the signs for strengthening anti-epidemic measures for three consecutive days, the regional commission convenes and decides to strengthen the restrictions. The commission analyzes every three days of the epidemic situation and considers the issue of strengthening anti-epidemic measures.
The decision to strengthen anti-epidemic measures can be canceled no earlier than seven days from the date of its adoption, taking into account the results of the assessment of the current epidemic situation in the region.
