Ukraine has set another record of new cases of COVID-19 — 18,132 people were infected with the virus in the past day as of 9 a.m. on March 26.
In the past 24 hours, 326 people have died from the coronavirus, raising the total number of fatalities to 31,461.
Meanwhile, 7,138 people have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 1.29 million.
There are currently 293,088 active cases in Ukraine. The country has seen 1.6 million total cases since the pandemic arrived.
In the past 24 hours, 4,826 people have been hospitalized with the disease.
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Feb 1, 2021 to March 25, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.
Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 53,495 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, 22,760 antibody tests and 42,832 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 Odesa Oblast (1,545), Dnipro Oblast (1,358), Lviv Oblast (1,304), Kharkiv Oblast (1,204) and the city of Kyiv (1,164).
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 25, 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 25, a total of 174,324 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.
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.
The number of daily COVID-19 vaccinations in Ukraine since the vaccination campaign started on Feb. 24.
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.
Eleven regions are in the red zone – Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Chernivtsy Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Mykolayiv Oblast and Cherkasy Oblast.
