Ukraine recorded 4,140 new COVID-19 cases as of 9 a.m. on Oct. 4, bringing the national total to 226,462.
The country’s daily cases surpassed 4,000 on Sept. 29 and have been growing for four days reaching a record-high 4,661 on Oct. 3. The drop in new daily cases and recoveries is seen every weekend due to reduced testing.
In the past 24 hours, laboratories have carried out 19,402 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests. This is 5,000 to 10,000 fewer than the number of tests administered on a weekday.
There are currently 121,958 active cases in the country.
In the past 24 hours, 44 people have died, 708 have been admitted to hospitals, and 1,370 recovered. A total of 100,107 patients have recovered and 4,397 have died since the beginning of the pandemic.
Weekly infection numbers show that western Ukrainian regions are no longer the coronavirus hotspots, and the pandemic is rapidly expanding to the east.
In the past 24 hours, the largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Kharkiv Oblast (414), the city of Kyiv (407), Donetsk Oblast (323), Zhytomyr Oblast (281), Sumy Oblast (263), and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (212).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Sept. 1 to Oct. 3, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health. (Kyiv Post)
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Sept. 1 and Oct. 2, 2020. (Kyiv Post)
