There has been a significant increase in the number of hospital admissions of patients with COVID-19 in Ukraine, said Deputy Minister of Health, Chief State Sanitary Doctor Viktor Liashko during a press briefing in Kyiv on June 18.
“We are monitoring the congestion of beds: we have a dynamics of 2,500 to 3,500 – this is from 10% to 15-17%. In the first-wave hospitals, about 25,000 beds are ready to receive patients. In recent days the number of hospitalized people is growing significantly. Earlier we had up to 100 hospitalizations per day, today we recorded 190 of them. About 90 patients stay on the artificial lung ventilation devices daily. We have about 2,000 of such devices in the first-wave hospitals,” he said.
“In mid-May, the number of hospital admissions was decreasing and there was a hope that the aggressiveness of the virus was decreasing. But after the fourth stage of weakening, we have a dynamics in the growth of hospitalizations, and each 30th patient dies,” the head physician emphasized.
Liashko also noted that the ministry, together with the Institute of Microbiology of the National Academy of Sciences is developing a poly test system for influenza and flu-like diseases, which will be used in the future epidemiological season of 2020-2021 to monitor the percentage of coronavirus circulation in the general virus circulation.
