covid19ukraine

Monday, December 6

The owners of hotels in ski resorts will be fined for the tourists not having documents confirming their COVID status (vaccination certificate, negative PCR tests, or a certificate of recovery), said the Health Minister, Viktor Liashko. Visitors to resorts are advised to assign a unique mark, such as a sticker, to id...

Friday, October 15

Ukraine has reported new COVID-19 cases. “Some 18,881 new confirmed COVID-19 cases (including 1,748 cases among children and 368 cases among healthcare workers) were recorded in Ukraine on October 13, 2021,” the Health Ministry o...

Friday, September 10

The number of new cases of coronavirus spirals to over 3,600. 3663 new cases in the country were confirmed on September 9 during the previous 24 hours. This is triple the average number two months ago. Quarantine measures are expected to be strengthened shortly,...

Tuesday, September 7

New quarantine restrictions and then a lockdown? If the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic does not improve, Ukraine may move to the “yellow” zone of quarantine restrictions starting from September 13, Health Minister Viktor Liashko ha...

World Bank may provide $150 mln for an emergency response to COVID-19. Health Minister Liashko says that after a meeting in Washington last week with World Bank Director for Human Development in Europe and Central Asia Fadia Saadah he received “assurances of the possibil...

Thursday, July 29

“Now is a good time to get vaccinated while the Delta strain has not spread widely through the country,” Habicht told UNIAN. The last wave was Ukraine’s deadliest, taking 18,626 lives nationwide between March 9 and May 6, according to Health Ministry statistics. Over last two months, Ukraine has averaged...

Starting in August, people arriving from Russia and India will have to undergo “mandatory self-isolation or observation for 14 days without the possibility of early termination,” Health Minister Viktor Lyashko told the Cabinet yesterday. “The new Delta coronavirus strain is actively spreading in Europe. A large outbreak is recorde...

By the end of this year, Ukraine expects to receive 47 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Prime Minister Shmygal told the Cabinet yesterday. “This amount of vaccine will be sufficient to fulfill the task of fully vaccinating most Ukrainian adults in 2021,” he said. About 30 million adults ...

“We are ready for the autumn, ” President Zelenskiy told reporters yesterday. “We have 90,000 open beds for patients with coronavirus.”

Monday, July 19

Up to 40% of Ukrainians are now immune to Covid-19, said Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, on Friday. He referred to a national survey indicating that one third of Ukrainians have had Covid. As of Friday, 4 mi...

Thursday, June 24

Ukraine is considering strengthening border controls over travelers from the Britain, India, Portugal and Russia to prevent the spread of Delta variant, the Health Minister Viktor Lyashko said yesterday. Only two weeks ago, as new infections started to dip below 1,000 a day, Ukraine relaxed travel requirements. ...

With Ukraine and rest of Europe racing to vaccinate as many people as possible, health officials warn there could be a fourth wave of the pandemic this fall . In April, at the height of the last wave, the number of deaths in Ukraine was up 48.5%, compared to April 2020, when the pandemic was only starting. Through June 18, the number of deaths in Ukraine ...

Thursday, June 10

With new air shipments of vaccines arriving in Kyiv daily, vaccination centers have opened in Kyiv and 13 other cities. Kyiv residents can register online for free vaccinations on weekends at the International Exhibition Center 15A Brovarskyi Avenue using the Diia app and Helsi.me, an online service for booking doctor ...

Wednesday, May 12

Separately, the European Investment Bank has approved a €58 million loan to improve vocational education in Ukraine. The money will help create up to 10 regional centers of excellence in vocational education and training in Ukraine. The money follows a similarly sized project under the EU4Skills program, funded sinc...

Tuesday, May 11

Ukraine has signed contracts to receive a total of 42 million doses of coronavirus vaccines through the end of this year , Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said Friday night on Ukraine 24 TV. To cover Ukraine’s adult population, he said, delivery contracts need to be signed for 5 million more doses.

Tuesday, May 4

With no end in sight to the pandemic, which has left tens of thousands dead and threatens even more, Zelenskiy said “Ukraine was among those who did not ask, but, on the contrary, gave a helping hand” : our doctors traveled to different countries of the European Union to save the sick together with local exhausted doctors. He also mentioned the planes that Ukraine provided for the delivery of prote...

“Ukraine received too little of the promised vaccines, and I reminded everyone that equality is about concrete support when it is most needed. The pandemic began more than a year ago. And for seven years Ukraine has remained a real, not a metaphorical outpost of Europe. War takes our people, eats up our economy, and ravages our Ukrainian ter...

Wednesday, April 21

Ukraine has passed the peak of its third coronavirus wave, said Maksym Stepanov, Health Minister, in a press conference yesterday. Last week, there were 3,500 fewer hospitalizations than the previous week. In the nation, hospitals in the capital, Kyiv, had th...

Thursday, April 15

Kyiv’s lockdown has been extended for another two weeks – to Friday, April 30. “We don’t have a choice,” Mayor Klitschko said at a briefing yesterday. “Otherwise, the medical system won’t handle the load, and there will be even more deaths.” Schools and shopping centers will rem...

Special mass transit permits have been distributed as follows: healthcare and pharmaceutical – 152,000; production and sale of food, defense industry, mechanical engineering – 104,000; government executives – 81,000; military, police, judiciary – 72,000; ho...

Tuesday, January 5

“There is a probability that we actually have fewer people now being infected with this coronavirus “There is a probability that we actually have fewer people now being infected with this coronavirus, and it is possible that the first wave is coming to an end,” Serhiy Komistarenko, a member of Ukrai...

Confirmed cases may have dropped because people with mild cases do not want to go through the bother and expense of being tested. Confirmed cases may have dropped because people with mild cases do not want to go through the bother and expense of being tested. In addition, over the last three months, 6% of Ukraine’s population fe...

In face of falling infection numbers, business groups are pressuring the government to soften In face of falling infection numbers, business groups are pressuring the government to soften the lockdown that starts this Friday, the day after Orthodox Christmas, and runs through Sunday January 24...

“There is a probability that we actually have fewer people now being infected with this coronavirus “There is a probability that we actually have fewer people now being infected with this coronavirus, and it is possible that the first wave is coming to an end,” Serhiy Komistarenko, a member of Ukrai...

Starting at 12:01 am on Friday, mandatory closures cover: Starting at 12:01 am on Friday, mandatory closures cover: all restaurants, bars, schools, gyms, swimming and non-food stores. Allowed will be: food stores, pharmacies, medical clinics, sales of hygien...

In face of falling infection numbers, business groups are pressuring the government to soften In face of falling infection numbers, business groups are pressuring the government to soften the lockdown that starts this Friday, the day after Orthodox Christmas, and runs through Sunday January 24...

To prepare for economic pain from the coming lockdown To prepare for economic pain from the coming lockdown, the government has distributed $130 million in grants to almost half a million small business owners and their employees, Prime Minister Shmygal ...

Starting at 12:01 am on Friday, mandatory closures cover: Starting at 12:01 am on Friday, mandatory closures cover: all restaurants, bars, schools, gyms, swimming and non-food stores. Allowed will be: food stores, pharmacies, medical clinics, sales of hygien...

The government is heeding Health Minister Stepanov’s call to stick with the Friday shutdown The government is heeding Health Minister Stepanov’s call to stick with the Friday shutdown. “Many people ask whether we plan to postpone or cancel the quarantine, as the number of cases has been fall...

To prepare for economic pain from the coming lockdown To prepare for economic pain from the coming lockdown, the government has distributed $130 million in grants to almost half a million small business owners and their employees, Prime Minister Shmygal ...

Ukraine will only start to return to normal this spring Ukraine will only start to return to normal this spring, Viktor Lyashko, chief sanitary doctor, predicts in an interview with Ukraina 24 TV. “We will start out a step-by-step return to our usual rhyth...

The government is heeding Health Minister Stepanov’s call to stick with the Friday shutdown The government is heeding Health Minister Stepanov’s call to stick with the Friday shutdown. “Many people ask whether we plan to postpone or cancel the quarantine, as the number of cases has been fall...

In coming weeks, Ukraine hopes to receive almost 20 million doses of coronavirus vaccines, enough to vaccinate 10 million people, about one third of the adult population this year In coming weeks, Ukraine hopes to receive almost 20 million doses of coronavirus vaccines, enough to vaccinate 10 million people, about one third of the adult population this year. The Health Ministry...

Ukraine will only start to return to normal this spring Ukraine will only start to return to normal this spring, Viktor Lyashko, chief sanitary doctor, predicts in an interview with Ukraina 24 TV. “We will start out a step-by-step return to our usual rhyth...

China’s Sinovac Biotech China’s Sinovac Biotech: Last week Ukraine’s Health Ministry of Health signed a $34 million ProZorro contract for delivery of 1.9 million doses. Health Minister Maksym Stepanov predicts the first vacc...

In coming weeks, Ukraine hopes to receive almost 20 million doses of coronavirus vaccines, enough to vaccinate 10 million people, about one third of the adult population this year In coming weeks, Ukraine hopes to receive almost 20 million doses of coronavirus vaccines, enough to vaccinate 10 million people, about one third of the adult population this year. The Health Ministry...

COVAX COVAX – President Zelenskiy wrote Thursday on Telegram: “We are working to increase supply through COVAX [from 8 million] to 16 million doses.” COVAX is a multinational collaboration organize to ensur...

China’s Sinovac Biotech China’s Sinovac Biotech: Last week Ukraine’s Health Ministry of Health signed a $34 million ProZorro contract for delivery of 1.9 million doses. Health Minister Maksym Stepanov predicts the first vacc...

Poland has offered to transfer 1.5 million vaccine doses to Ukraine Poland has offered to transfer 1.5 million vaccine doses to Ukraine, Yevhen Enin, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister, told Interfax-Ukraine.

COVAX COVAX – President Zelenskiy wrote Thursday on Telegram: “We are working to increase supply through COVAX [from 8 million] to 16 million doses.” COVAX is a multinational collaboration organize to ensur...

Russia’s Sputnik V Russia’s Sputnik V: Despite an announcement in Moscow that this vaccine will undergo ‘clinical trials’ in Ukraine, officials here say it will not be allowed. Arsen Zhumadilov, Head of Medical Procurem...

Poland has offered to transfer 1.5 million vaccine doses to Ukraine Poland has offered to transfer 1.5 million vaccine doses to Ukraine, Yevhen Enin, Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister, told Interfax-Ukraine.

The Covid economy accelerated Ukrainians’ flight from cash in 2020 The Covid economy accelerated Ukrainians’ flight from cash in 2020, indicate figures from PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest bank. Last year, Ukrainians’ transactions with PrivatBank terminals increased by...

Russia’s Sputnik V Russia’s Sputnik V: Despite an announcement in Moscow that this vaccine will undergo ‘clinical trials’ in Ukraine, officials here say it will not be allowed. Arsen Zhumadilov, Head of Medical Procurem...

Surfing the net during lockdowns, Ukrainians boosted visits to Ukrainian Wikipedia last year by 21% yoy Surfing the net during lockdowns, Ukrainians boosted visits to Ukrainian Wikipedia last year by 21% yoy. In 2020, 855.1 million pages were visited, raising Ukrainian Wikipedia to the rank of 17th most...

The Covid economy accelerated Ukrainians’ flight from cash in 2020 The Covid economy accelerated Ukrainians’ flight from cash in 2020, indicate figures from PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest bank. Last year, Ukrainians’ transactions with PrivatBank terminals increased by...

Official numbers indicate Official numbers indicate that Ukraine’s coronavirus epidemic has receded according to official numbers. Hospitalizations are down 20% from the early December level of 28,500, Prime Minister Shmyhal s...

The New Year’s holiday temperatures were some of the warmest on record, with the weather comparable to that of a normal mid-October The New Year’s holiday temperatures were some of the warmest on record, with the weather comparable to that of a normal mid-October, reported Central Geophysical Observatory. On Thursday and Friday, r...

Surfing the net during lockdowns, Ukrainians boosted visits to Ukrainian Wikipedia last year by 21% yoy Surfing the net during lockdowns, Ukrainians boosted visits to Ukrainian Wikipedia last year by 21% yoy. In 2020, 855.1 million pages were visited, raising Ukrainian Wikipedia to the rank of 17th most...

Today, only one third of the nation’s 77,000 Covid beds are occupied Today, only one third of the nation’s 77,000 Covid beds are occupied, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov reported yesterday. This is a sharp contrast to November when Covid hospitals in Kyiv were full an...