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Ukraine has registered 3,627 new COVID-19 cases as of 9 a.m. on Sept. 29. In the past 24 hours, 69 people have died, 614 have been hospitalized and 1,797 patients have recovered.

There are currently 110,617 active cases across the country.

The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Kharkiv Oblast (426) and the city of  Kharkiv (349), Odesa Oblast (271) and the city of Odesa (136), Dnipro Oblast (200) and the city of Dnipro (172) and the city of Kyiv (416).

In the past 24 hours, laboratories have carried out 24,168 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 21,997 antibody tests.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic stands at 204,932. A total of 90,250 patients have recovered and 4,065 have died.

Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Aug. 23 to Sept. 28, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health. (Kyiv Post)

Starting on Sept. 28, Ukraine is divided into new threat levels that depend on the number of cases in the last 14 days per 100,000 people and bed occupancy in hospitals, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said during the briefing on Sept. 28. According to Stepanov, only the city of Ternopil and Berezhany in Ternopil Oblasts are currently in the red zone, meaning that the threat of COVID-19 in that region is the most serious.

Based on the epidemic criteria, Kyiv gets a yellow level of threat, so all basic anti-epidemic measures in the capital remain in force. This includes mandatory mask-wearing in public transport and inside public establishments and no more than one person per 5 square meters during mass events. Cinemas must work at half-capacity. In addition, it is banned to visit care facilities for the elderly.

Although the number of cases in the country is still high, foreign citizens are now allowed to cross the country’s borders. The entry ban expired on Sept. 28 and there are no signs that the Ukrainian government will extend it.

It is expected that Ukraine will equate foreign citizens to Ukrainians arriving from abroad: If citizens travel from the country where the number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in the last 14 days is higher than in Ukraine, they need to undergo self-isolation or make a PCR test upon arrival.

Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Aug. 25 and Sept. 28, 2020. (Kyiv Post)