Ukraine has registered 16,669 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on March 25 — a record number of new infections since the start of the pandemic.
The total number of cases in the country is 1.59 million.
Coronavirus deaths have also continued to escalate — in the past 24 hours, 362 people have died, setting a new record for the third day in a row. A total of 31,135 people have died since the pandemic hit Ukraine.
Meanwhile, 6,748 people have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1.28 million.
There are currently 282,420 active cases in Ukraine.
In the past 24 hours, 4,838 people have been hospitalized with the disease.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Feb 1, 2021 to March 24, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 57,818 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, 22,950 antibody tests and 47,847 rapid antigen tests in the past day. Over 7.8 million PCR tests have been conducted in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic.
The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (1,267), Odesa Oblast (1,235), Zhytomyr Oblast (1,136), Lviv Oblast (1,032), and Khmelnytskyi Oblast (989).
Starting March 20, Kyiv is under lockdown in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. (See the lockdown restrictions).
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Feb. 1, 2021 and March 24, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
The lockdown in Kyiv will run through April 9. Another large Ukrainian city, Lviv, introduced a two-week lockdown starting March 19. Mykolaiv, a southern city, introduced a lockdown on March 21.
Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by March 24, a total of 155,587 people have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by India’s Serum Institute. Only one person received two doses of the vaccine so far.
The number of daily COVID-19 vaccinations in Ukraine since the vaccination campaign started on Feb. 24.
To date, Ukraine has received 500,000 doses of vaccine produced by India’s Serum Institute. Ukraine has ordered a total of 17 million doses from India, including vaccines developed by British-Swedish pharmaceutical AstraZeneca and U.S. biotech firm Novavax. Altogether, Ukraine expects to receive around 22 million doses in 2021.
On March 1, the Health Ministry started accepting online and telephone applications from Ukrainians who want to be put on the waiting list for the vaccine.
Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said that Ukraine’s vaccination drive was unacceptably slow. The government had planned for 10,000 vaccinations per day in the first weeks, while in reality, the pace was 5-10 times slower.
Meanwhile, 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.
Eight regions are in the red zone – Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Chernivtsy Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast and Sumy Oblast.
On March 4, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Ukraine has entered the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The prime minister didn’t rule out the possibility of another nationwide lockdown. Ukraine had had two nationwide lockdowns before: in March-May 2020, and in January 2021.
