COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine


The COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Ukraine when the country's first case was confirmed to be hospitalized in Chernivtsi Oblast on 3 March 2020, a man who had travelled from Italy to Romania by plane and then arrived in Ukraine by car.
An emergency was declared on 20 March in the Kiev Oblast, Chernivtsi Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, and in the city of Kiev.
Statistics for the Russian-held Autonomous Republic of Crimea and city of Sevastopol, and for the unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine are not reported by Ukraine's state agencies, and not included in the country's totals.

Background

On 12 January, the World Health Organization confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, who had initially come to the attention of the WHO on 31 December 2019.
Unlike SARS of 2003, the case fatality ratio for COVID-19 has been much lower, but the transmission has been significantly greater, with a significant total death toll.

Timeline

January 2020

On 27 January 2020, SkyUp, a Ukrainian low-cost charter airline, announced that it had suspended flights to Sanya, Hainan, until March.

February 2020

On 4 February, Ukraine International Airlines suspended its charter service to Sanya Phoenix International Airport in Hainan. Initially, the suspension was set to last until 24 February, however the airline has not yet indicated when it will resume flights.
On 24 February, Boryspil International Airport and Kiev International Airport were supposed to implement thermal screening procedures for travellers from Italy, but airport staff were either underequipped or ignored the protocol.

March 2020

On 3 March, Ukraine announced its first confirmed SARS-CoV-2 case, a man who had travelled from Italy to Romania by plane and then arrived in Ukraine by car.
On 12 March, two more SARS-CoV-2 cases were confirmed in Ukraine. The diagnosis was confirmed for a man in the Chernivtsi Oblast, whose wife had recently returned from Italy, and for a 71-year-old woman in the Zhytomyr Oblast, who had returned from Poland on 1 March. The woman, from Radomyshl, in the Zhytomyr Oblast, died on 13 March, becoming the first fatal case in the country.
On 16 March, two new cases were confirmed in the Chernivtsi Oblast, and two others in Kiev. In Kiev, one of the persons concerned was a student who had contacted the infected woman in the Zhytomyr Oblast, while the other was a woman who had returned from France.
On 17 March, six more cases were confirmed in the Chernivtsi Oblast, all of them had contacted the previously known case, including a 33-year-old woman who died. The first cases of children being infected were reported. One case was confirmed in the Kiev Oblast, a man who had recently come from abroad, who was later confirmed to be a People's Deputy of Ukraine.
On 18 March, member of the Ukrainian parliament Serhii Shakhov stated that he was SARS-CoV-2 positive after denying it earlier in the day. Kyiv Post counted Shakhov as being among the total of 14 people in Ukraine with laboratory confirmations of being SARS-CoV-2 positive.
Later that day, two new cases were announced: the second one for the Kiev Oblast and the first one for the Donetsk Oblast.
On 19 March, the third case was confirmed in Kiev, and the second in the Zhytomyr Oblast. The same day, the first cases were reported in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, also five new cases were reported in the Chernivtsi Oblast, thereby increasing the total number of infected in Ukraine to 26.
On 20 March, the first case of recovery from COVID-19 was reported for a man in Chernivtsi who was the first infected person in the country. On the same day, 15 new positive COVID-19 tests were confirmed across Ukraine: Chernivtsi Oblast, Lviv Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Kharkiv Oblast, Kiev Oblast, Ternopil Oblast. It increased the total number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine to 41. The case from the Kharkiv Oblast was a woman who had been diagnosed in Kiev, and was being treated in Kiev, and on 21 March was transferred from the statistics for Kharkiv to those for Kiev.
On 21 March, according to the Ministry of Health, the total confirmed cases in Ukraine was 47. There were either six or seven new cases confirmed in Kiev bringing the total to ten. In the Donetsk Oblast, the first case of coronavirus was recorded and an emergency was declared in the oblast. The first patient was confirmed in Lutsk, and in disputed Crimea. There were 417 people suspected of having coronavirus in Crimea and Sevastopol at the end of 21 March.
As of 10:00 on 23 March, there were 73 confirmed cases in Ukraine. During the previous 24 hours, 26 new cases were confirmed.
As of 10:00 on 24 March, 11 new cases had been confirmed in Ukraine during the previous 24 hours, bringing the total to 84 confirmed cases. This was later raised to 97 confirmed cases. The head of the Chernivtsi Oblast state administration, Serhiy Osachuk, said that 13 new cases of the disease had been confirmed in Chernivtsi Oblast. There were 38 infected people in the Ukrainian part of Bukovina.
At 10:00 on 25 March, the Ministry of Health stated that 29 new cases had been confirmed in Ukraine during the previous 24 hours, bringing the total to 113 confirmed cases. These included the first case in the Volyn Oblast, the first two cases in the Zaporizhia Oblast, two more cases in Kiev, seven more in the Kiev Oblast, the first case in the Luhansk Oblast, the first case in the Odessa Oblast, two more cases in the Ternopil Oblast, and 13 new cases in the Chernivtsi Oblast that had been reported in the media the previous day. One person in the Ternopil Oblast died of the disease.
On 25 March, the Government introduced a 30-day emergency regime across Ukraine that was scheduled planned to end on 24 April.
At 10:00 on 26 March, the Ministry of Health stated that 43 new cases had been confirmed in Ukraine during the previous 24 hours, bringing the total to 156 confirmed cases. One person in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast died of the disease. By the end of 26 March, there were five confirmed cases in Sevastopol, and nine in the rest of Crimea; over 3,000 people were suspected of having the disease, and nearly 90 were isolated in hospitals in Crimea.
At 10:00 on 27 March, the Ministry announced that 62 more cases had been confirmed in Ukraine in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total to 218 confirmed cases. Three more patients from Chernivtsi had recovered from the disease. This brought up to four the number of recovered people: three adults and a child. Repeated laboratory tests showed no trace of the virus, and another polymerase chain reaction test had shown a negative reaction twice in a row.
At 10:00 on 28 March, the Ministry announced that 93 more cases had been confirmed in Ukraine in the previous 24 hours, bringing the total to 311 confirmed cases. Three more people had died, bringing the total to eight. Another person had recovered, bringing the total to five. There were reported cases in all parts of Ukraine, except the Kirovohrad Oblast.
At 10:00 on 29 March, the Ministry announced that 109 new cases had been confirmed, bringing the total to 418. There had been 248 new reports of suspicion of the disease, bringing the total to 1966 since the start of the year. Four cases had been confirmed in the Kirovohrad Oblast. The two cases shown in the statistics for 28 March had been moved to the statistics for Kiev.

April 2020

Since 6 April, wearing a face mask is required by the government in public places. In Kiev, public places were clarified to include parks and streets.
On 21 April, it was reported that the Ministry planned to request an extension of the quarantine until May 12, albeit with some exceptions, such as opening libraries and museums. A day later, the government extended the quarantine measures until May 11; all measures remained in place, with the exception of granting access to public transport to potential blood donors.

May 2020

On 4 May, the Ukrainian government extended the quarantine until 22 May.
A number of restrictions were lifted on 11 May. These included the re-opening of parks, squares, recreation areas, beauty salons, hairdressers and barber shops, cafes and restaurants with outdoor tables. The second stage of easing the quarantine is currently scheduled for 22 May, which envisages the reopening of nurseries, public transport, and hotels, and allowing sports competitions to be held.
On 25 May, the metro systems in Kyiv and Kharkiv were reopened.

June 2020

On 1 June, railway connections between a number of Ukrainian cities were re-opened.
Domestic flights resumed on 5 June, along with the reopening of restaurants, cafes and religious establishments.
International flights resumed on 15 June, but as of this date, Ukrainians could only travel to Albania, Belarus, the UK, US, and Turkey.

Cases by region

The following information was reported as of 9:00 am on 31 July 2020:
RegionCasesDeathsRecoveredActive
2736512046639
3783842756943
1402271094281
88112645224
1850371477336
514619220442910
79021597172
455713816432776
824113229415168
3716632660993
7033663235
12619431
952626023146952
59014445131
32144512881881
4401532996
60249346881243
4858339138
29763917701167
371112721521432
227320222
113824925189
92437713174
587521644301229
82318528277
Total6988416933875229439

Data from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts, the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and the city of Sevastopol is excluded from the daily updates by the Ukrainian Ministry of Healthcare. The unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic and the unrecognized Luhansk People's Republic report numbers independently, while Russia includes the annexed Republic of Crimea in its numbers.

Statistics


Total number of cases
Number of new cases per day


7-day average of number of new cases per day


Number of active cases in each day


Change in number of active cases per day


Number of new recoveries per day


Number of deaths per day