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Ukraine has registered a daily record of 20,341 new cases of COVID-19 as of 9 a.m. on April 3.

In the past 24 hours, 396 people have died from the disease, raising the total number of fatalities to 34,075.

Meanwhile, 9,166 people have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to over 1.3 million.

There are currently 355,360 active cases in Ukraine. The country has seen over 1.7 million total cases since the pandemic started.

In the past 24 hours, 5,186 people have been hospitalized with the disease.

The largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Kyiv (2,053), Lviv Oblast (1,538), Odesa Oblast (1,521), Kharkiv Oblast (1,470), and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (1,433).

Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from March 1, 2021 to April 2, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 58,951 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, 23,084 antibody tests, and 46,457 rapid antigen tests in the past day. Over 8.2 million PCR tests have been conducted in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic.

Starting March 20, Kyiv is under lockdown in response to the rising number of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations. (See the lockdown restrictions). From April 5, the capital will close down all schools and kindergartens, as well as public transport, including the subway. The lockdown in Kyiv will run at least through April 16.

Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between March 1, 2021 and April 2, 2021. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.

Vaccination in Ukraine began on Feb. 24 and by April 3, a total of 286,647 people have received the first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine produced by India’s Serum Institute. Only two people 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. All data was released by the Ministry of Health.

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.

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.

Ten regions are in the red zone – Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Chernivtsi Oblast, Odesa Oblast, Zakarpattia Oblast, Sumy Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Mykolaiv Oblast and Cherkasy Oblast.