The number of officially confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ukraine has reached 48,500 as of 9 a.m. on July 5.
In the past 24 hours, health authorities confirmed 823 new cases of COVID-19. During this same period, 215 people were hospitalized. Among newly confirmed cases, 53 were children and 53 were medical workers.
Twenty-two people died, bringing the total death toll in the country to 1,249 since the beginning of the pandemic. Additionally, 221 patients have recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 21,376.
The regions with the highest numbers of newly registered cases are Lviv Oblast (138), Donetsk Oblast (81) and Zakarpattia Oblast (107).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from May 1 to July 4, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health.
A total of 9,934 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests were administered across the country during the past 24 hours. In addition, Ukrainian laboratories carried out 4,023 antibody tests (ELISA).
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between May 1 and July 4, 2020.
On July 4, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said that, in those Ukrainian regions where more people were diagnosed with COVID-19 — like Volyn, Zakarpattia and Rivne Oblasts — authorities had already started to prepare additional hospitals due to the “significant growth of patients with coronavirus disease.”
During his morning briefing on July 5, Stepanov shared some non-coronavirus news: For the first time in Lviv, a city located 500 kilometers to the west of Kyiv, doctors had conducted a heart transplant two days ago.
Stepanov said that he has set a two-year goal for the Health Ministry to provide all the necessary conditions for doctors and a legal framework to allow organ transplants to be performed in Ukraine. That would mean that, in the future, Ukrainians would not need to go abroad for these procedures.
CORONAVIRUS IN UKRAINE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- As of 9 a.m. on July 5: 1,249 people have died from the disease in Ukraine and 21,155 have recovered.
- 48,500 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ukraine as of July 5. The first case was identified on March 3.
- Ukraine entered the fourth stage of lifting quarantine on June 10.
- Indoor restaurants, domestic flights resumed on June 5, international flights on June 15
- How the Ukrainian government has been responding: TIMELINE
- Kyiv, Kharkiv and Dnipro subways reopened on May 25.
- Why the Kyiv Post isn’t making its coverage free in the times of COVID-19.
- With international travel on hold, Ukrainians prepare to travel across Ukraine
- TripsGuard website tracks coronavirus travel restrictions in 84 nations.
- Where to buy masks.
