Ukraine has registered 5,529 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on Jan. 28, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to over 1.2 million.
In the past 24 hours, 11,946 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 149 have died.
A total of 992,031 people have recovered from COVID-19 and 22,351 have died since the pandemic hit Ukraine.
There are currently 192,030 active cases in Ukraine.
In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 28,627 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 20,109 antibody tests. Over 6 million PCR tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Lviv Oblast (454), in the city of Kyiv (396), Kharkiv Oblast (313), Mykolayiv Oblast (308), and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (296).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Dec. 1, 2020 to Jan. 27, 2021. All data were released by the Ministry of Health.
On Jan. 25, Ukraine reopened after the lockdown that has been in place since Jan. 8. The work of all non-essential businesses has now resumed.
Health Minister Maksym Stepanov believes the number of new coronavirus infections has declined thanks to toughened quarantine restrictions.
However, the number of PCR tests administrated daily has been declining dramatically since early December, too. Stepanov faces criticism that the new infection figures are not reliable and that the number of infected people is much higher than the ministry’s reported.
On Jan. 24, Stepanov announced the Ministry had no plans to impose a new lockdown as the January one worked well.
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Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Dec. 1, 2020 and Jan. 27, 2021.
The country went back to the adaptive quarantine measures that had been in force since before the January lockdown. Under the quarantine that is set to last at least until Feb. 28, mass gatherings like concerts and parties are limited to 20 people, restaurants can work until 11 p.m., and the policies on masks and social distancing remain in force in all public spaces.
Starting Jan. 14, business owners are fined if their employees or customers don’t wear face masks. The fines can range between $122 and $183.
According to the law passed by the government on Jan. 13, when employees notice a customer without a mask, they have to stop servicing them and call the police if the person refuses to put on their mask. A mask has to cover both the nose and mouth.
While many countries in the world have been giving the anti-coronavirus vaccine to their citizens since mid-December, Ukraine is about to start vaccination in February.
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According to a survey by Rating sociological group, 52% of Ukrainians would not take the coronavirus vaccine, even if it was free.
