The number of officially confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ukraine has reached 1,096 as of 10 a.m. on April 4, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Health.
Twenty-eight people have been killed by the disease, an increase of one since the evening of April 3. Twenty-three people have recovered from the virus.
COVID-19 has infected 154 people in Ukraine since April 3, 10 of them are children, six – medical workers.
Over the last 24 hours, 636 suspected COVID-19 cases have been reported in Ukraine, two times more than the day before, according to Viktor Lyashko, Ukraine’s chief sanitary doctor.
Since the beginning of the outbreak in Ukraine, 477 infected Ukrainians have been hospitalized, 16 of them have been put on lung ventilators to help them breathe.
The world’s death rate among confirmed COVID-19 cases is 5.4%, in Ukraine, it is 2.6%, Lyashko said.
Meanwhile, five Ukrainians have died from the novel coronavirus abroad, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Eleven patients have recovered from the disease; 166 are treated in different countries.
As of early April 4, the largest number of coronavirus cases in Ukraine were registered in Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast (272 cases), Chernivtsi Oblast (206 cases), Ternopil Oblast (135 cases), and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (94 cases).
On April 3, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine ordered to strengthen the quarantine measures in the country until April 24 to prevent the rapid spread of COVID-19. Starting on April 6, it is forbidden to go out without medical masks. The government will also ban walking in a group of more than two persons (unless accompanying children) starting that same day. Walking in parks, squares, recreation areas, forest parks and coastal zones is also forbidden starting April 3. However, there are exceptions: a person can walk a pet alone in these areas.
Globally, COVID-19 has killed at least 59,220 people as of April 4, and infected 1,118,202 people; 229,157 patients have recovered. The United States, Italy, China and Spain are struggling the most to curb the spread of the disease.
CORONAVIRUS IN UKRAINE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- As of morning April 4: 28 people have died from COVID-19 in Ukraine; 23 people have recovered.
- 5 Ukrainians died from the novel coronavirus abroad; 11 recovered.
- 1096 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ukraine as of early April 4. The first case was identified on March 3.
- Ukraine has extended its quarantine measures until April 24.
- Infographic of quarantine measures in place until April 24.
- The measures shuttered most everything but hospitals, supermarkets, pharmacies, banks, gas stations, and other critical enterprises.
- How the Ukrainian government has been responding: TIMELINE
- Misinformation on coronavirus is going viral in Ukraine.
- 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.
- Coronavirus stops the Kyiv Post’s print edition for now.
- Where to buy masks.
Effects on the economy:
- COVID-19 is already inflicting harm on Ukraine’s economy.
- Invisible Threat Lurks Undetected: Top stories from March 27, 2020 PDF edition.
- The former minister of economy says half a million Ukrainians may lose their jobs in the COVID-19 crisis.
