Nine new cases of novel coronavirus infection confirmed in Ukraine on March 25, according to the local authorities. The total number of patients with COVID-19 deadly virus in the country has increased to 117.
Three of the new coronavirus cases occurred in Kyiv, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
“Friends, worrying statistics show an increase in Kyiv,” Klitschko said on Facebook.
Those three new cases are laboratory-confirmed, said Klitschko, which means that the patients were checked on the most accurate test existing, PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test.
“All three patients…are men – 31, 36, and 67-year-olds. Two of them have recently returned from Israel while another one has come back from the United Arab Emirates,” Klitchko continued.
“All three are hospitalized,” he summed up.
So far, there are 34 cases of coronavirus infection in Kyiv.
Meanwhile, the Zaporizhia governor revealed that five first cases have been recorded in his region.
“Four people are now in the regional infectious hospital, where they are provided with the best care. One person is in self-isolation in a city of Melytopol,” said Vitaliy Turinok during a meeting at the Zaporizhia regional administration.
Among Zaporizhia residents tested positive for coronavirus are those who had returned from abroad including from Courchevel, a French Alps ski resort in France, and from Sharm-el-Sheikh, a popular destination for vacation in Egypt.
Roman Terekhov, an acting director at the regional laboratory center said: “The condition of patients with coronavirus infection is not severe.”
The virus has continued to spread across the country.
Artem Semenikhin, a mayor of Konotop, a city in Sumy Oblast, on March 25 late afternoon reported one coronavirus case in the region.
“It is a 76-year-old woman from a village called Kozatske of Konotop district. Currently, she is in reanimation. We are doing everything that is needed. She is conscious; connected to a lungs ventilator,” said Semenikhin on Facebook.
The woman was tested twice and both times positive, said the mayor. The authorities are now awaiting the results of the lab test.
CORONAVIRUS IN UKRAINE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Ukraine has extended its quarantine measures until April 4.
- The measures shuttered most everything but hospitals, supermarkets, pharmacies, banks, gas stations and other critical enterprises.
- There have been 117 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ukraine. The first case was identified on March 3.
- Four people have died from COVID-19 in Ukraine. One person recovered.
- Three Ukrainians died from COVID-19 in Italy.
- How the Ukrainian government has been responding: TIMELINE
- Misinformation on coronavirus is going viral in Ukraine.
- Doctor’s advice: How to stay safe.
- Foreign Ministry: What you need to know about traveling to and from Ukraine now
- Why the Kyiv Post isn’t making its coverage free in the times of COVID-19.
Effects on economy:
- Here’s what the virus is doing to Ukraine’s economy.
- Ukrainian businesses respond to the crisis.
- The virus disrupts the transport sector. Ukrainian airlines canceled some flights to 16 countries due to the novel coronavirus.
- The National Bank of Ukraine continued to cut the policy rate while trying to buffer the hryvnia from coronavirus panic.
- The former minister of economy says half a million Ukrainians may lose their jobs in the COVID-19 crisis.
