Ukraine has registered 5,469 new COVID-19 cases as of 9 a.m. on Oct. 20, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to 309,107.
In the past 24 hours, 113 people have died, 3,044 have recovered and 841 were hospitalized. As of Oct. 16, 22,240 COVID-19 patients were receiving treatment in Ukraine’s hospitals.
A total of 129,533 patients have recovered and 5,786 have died since the beginning of the pandemic.
There are currently 173,788 active cases of COVID-19 across Ukraine.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Sept. 1 to Oct. 19, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health.
In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 31,543 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 21,860 antibody tests.
Ukraine expects to be conducting at least 50,000 PCR tests a day by the beginning of December, according to Health Minister Maksym Stepanov.
In the past 24 hours, the largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (462), Kharkiv Oblast (446), Zhytomyr Oblast (376), Lviv Oblast (289) and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (285).
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. 19, 2020.
The Cabinet of Ministers has extended the country’s quarantine restrictions until Dec. 31 due to an upsurge of new coronavirus cases.
According to Health Minister Maksym Stepanov during a briefing on Oct. 13, hospitals for COVID-19 patients are running out of beds. There are a total of 52,000 beds for COVID-19 patients and Ukrainian hospitals cannot accept any more patients because people with other diseases also need treatment.
During a briefing on Oct. 20, Serhiy Dubrov, president of the Association of Anesthesiologists of Ukraine and an expert at the Ministry of Health, said that Ukrainian hospitals are equipped with over 4,600 ventilators. In total, 613 of them are now in use.
Starting on Oct. 19, 68 Ukrainian cities and regions entered the “red” quarantine zone, including oblast centers like Chernivtsi, Khmelnytsky, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Severodonetsk, Poltava, Sumy, Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil.
Additionally, on Oct. 12, Kyiv moved from the “yellow” to the “orange” quarantine zone due to the growing COVID-19 infection rate and crowding of hospitals. However, the measures in place are stricter than required by the orange zone to prevent the spread of the virus.
In Kyiv, gyms and cultural establishments are required to close, while restaurants are not allowed to work past 10 p.m. Mass events will be canceled until the epidemiological situation improves.
It is now forbidden to hold mass events of over 50 people in “green zone” regions, over 30 people in “yellow zone” regions and over 20 people in the “orange zone.” In all these zones, participants must be at least 1.5 meters apart.
