Ukraine has registered 13,514 new COVID-19 cases as of 10 a.m. on Dec. 11, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to 872,228.
In the past 24 hours, 285 people have died of COVID-19, the highest number of daily deaths from the virus registered in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic. In the past 24 hours, 2,846 people were hospitalized, while 15,327 have recovered.
A total of 480,348 patients have recovered and 14,755 have died in Ukraine since the beginning of the pandemic.
In the past 24 hours, the largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in the city of Kyiv (1,880), Zaporizhzhia Oblast (895), Odesa Oblast (874), Kyiv Oblast (787) and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (759).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Nov. 1 to Dec. 10, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health. (Bermet Talant)
In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian laboratories have carried out 39,519 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 21,328 antibody tests. Over 4.8 million PCR tests have been conducted since the start of the pandemic.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Nov. 1 and Dec. 10, 2020.
During a briefing on Dec. 5, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said that weekend lockdown, which was imposed for three weekends from Nov. 14 until Nov. 30, had yielded a positive result. According to Stepanov, the numbers of new COVID-19 cases in Ukraine are currently lower than two weeks ago. On Nov. 28, Ukraine registered a record-breaking 16,294 new COVID-19 cases.
Despite this possible improvement, over the past two months, the daily case numbers and the death rate have increased sharply. For this reason, the Ukrainian government is considering imposing a strict lockdown during the winter holidays or right after New Year Day. So far, however, there has been no official decision.
The Ministry of Health wants to impose a three-week lockdown at the beginning of January when it expects the burden on the country’s hospitals to increase due to COVID-19 and flu cases, Stepanov said during a morning briefing on Dec. 4.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has also said that the country needs to impose a lockdown in January. In a statement on Dec. 6, he said that the government would announce the measures it plans to impose on Dec. 9.
