Ukraine has registered 8,940 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on April 20, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to over 1.96 million.
In the past 24 hours, 12,075 COVID-19 patients have recovered and 367 have died.
Over 1.49 million people have recovered from COVID-19 and 40,367 have died since the pandemic hit Ukraine.
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 37,557 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 16,815 antibody tests in the past 24 hours. Over 8.9 million PCR tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (892), Kharkiv (804), Poltava Oblast (725), Odesa Oblast (691) and Kyiv Oblast (647).
In the past 24 hours, 2,042 patients were hospitalized with COVID-19. On average, 4,500-5,000 Ukrainians per day were taken to the hospital with the coronavirus in March and April.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between March 1, 2021 and April 19, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Ukraine’s health system can handle no more than 7,000 daily hospitalizations, deputy health minister and chief sanitary doctor Viktor Lyashko said on April 10.
Vaccination
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by April 20, a total of 462,791 people have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by India’s Serum Institute. Only five people received two doses of the vaccine so far; 12,144 people were vaccinated in Ukraine on April 19.
The Health Ministry accepts online and telephone applications from Ukrainians who want to be put on the waiting list for the vaccine. As of April 19, Ukraine is in the second stage of the vaccination campaign, inoculating medical staff, military, and people over 80 years old. However, people who fall outside these categories may be able to receive surplus doses.
The number of daily COVID-19 vaccinations in Ukraine since the vaccination campaign started on Feb. 24. All data was released by the Ministry of Health
Ukraine currently vaccinates its citizens with vaccines from three producers: AstraZeneca, Sinovac and Pfizer.
The country received 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine in February and already used up most of it.
Ukraine has 215,000 doses of Sinovac’s Chinese-made Coronavac vaccine and expects to receive 1.7 million doses more. Only certain groups can get a Coronavac jab, including people with disabilities and those who take care of them, Ukrainians involved in organizing university entrance exams that take place in May-July, Olympic and Paralympic athletes and police officers.
Starting April 14-15, Ukraine will also distribute 117,000 doses of U.S.-made Pfizer vaccine to nursing homes, customs employees and emergency services.
Lockdown
Since March 20, Kyiv has been under a lockdown in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. On April 5, the capital shut down all schools and kindergartens. Public transport, including the subway, allows only passengers who work in critical infrastructure, with special permits from the city.
The lockdown will run throughout April 30.
Ukraine remains in adaptive quarantine, where each oblast is assigned one of four epidemiological levels, depending on the COVID-19 situation there. There are green, yellow, orange and red levels. A red status means that a lockdown will be imposed locally.
Twelve regions are in the red zone – Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Zaporizhia Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast, Poltava Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Khmelnytsky Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast and Chernivtsi Oblast.
