COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine

See also: COVID-19 pandemic in Crimea, COVID-19 pandemic in Sevastopol, COVID-19 pandemic in the Donetsk People's Republic, and COVID-19 pandemic in the Luhansk People's Republic

COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine
A COVID-19 patient in a severe state in Chernivtsi in May 2020
DiseaseCOVID-19
Virus strainSARS-CoV-2
LocationUkraine
First outbreakWuhan, Hubei, China (globally)
Italy, Romania, Egypt (locally)
Index caseChernivtsi Oblast
Arrival date3 March 2020 (4 years, 8 months and 7 days)
Confirmed cases5,541,305[1]
Recovered3,483,354[2]
Deaths
109,923[1]
Fatality rate1.98%
Vaccinations
  • 16,267,198[1] (total vaccinated)
  • 15,741,036[1] (fully vaccinated)
  • 35,735,490[1] (doses administered)
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The COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine has resulted in 5,541,305[1] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 109,923[1] deaths.

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,[3] a man who had travelled from Italy to Romania by plane and then arrived in Ukraine by car.[4] An emergency was declared on 20 March 2020 in Kyiv Oblast, Chernivtsi Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, and the city of Kyiv.[5] New infections and deaths started to break records by late October 2021.[6][7] By then, a total of 2.8 million coronavirus cases and 64,936 COVID-19 related deaths had occurred in Ukraine.[7]

Ukraine's ongoing vaccination program[8] started on 24 February 2021 and from that day to 12 September 2021, 10,710,944 vaccinations were given in Ukraine (meaning 18% of the adult population of Ukraine had been vaccinated against COVID-19).[9] About 44% of those vaccinated had been fully vaccinated.[10][11] In an August 2021 poll 56% of Ukrainians did not plan to be vaccinated.[11] Demand for vaccinations multiplied sharply by late October 2021.[6][7] On 7 January 2022 the Ministry of Health announced that 44.9% of the adult population had undergone a full course of vaccination.[12]

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 are not included in the country's totals.[13]

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Ministry of Healthcare has made no further press releases related to COVID-19, and the latest counts were for 23 February 2022.[14] As a result, daily counts are displayed in various diagrams as zero. In late May 2022, Chief State Sanitary Doctor Ihor Kuzin stated that since the beginning of the invasion, more than 750 studies had been conducted and that COVID-19 outbreaks were not expected in Ukraine in the near future.[15] On 1 July 2023, the Ministry downgraded the disease's alert levels to that of regular respiratory diseases and lifted all emergency measures relating to it.[16]

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  2. ^ "Coronavirus in Ukraine". Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  3. ^ "First coronavirus case identified in Ukraine | KyivPost - Ukraine's Global Voice". Kyiv Post. 3 March 2020. Archived from the original on 13 March 2020.
  4. ^ "Ukraine reports first coronavirus case, in man who traveled from Italy". Reuters. 3 March 2020. Archived from the original on 3 March 2020.
  5. ^ "В Еще Одной Области Украины Объявили Чрезвычайную Ситуацию Из-За Коронавируса" [An emergency has been declared in another region of Ukraine because of the Corona virus]. TSN. 21 March 2020. Archived from the original on 21 March 2020.
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  10. ^ (in Ukrainian) More than 10 million vaccinations: Lyashko assures that he has fulfilled his promise, Ukrayinska Pravda (8 September 2021)
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  12. ^ Nearly 45% of adult population in Ukraine fully jabbed against COVID-19, Ukrinform (7 January 2022)
  13. ^ Miller, Christopher (17 April 2020). "No Official Tallies, But Separatist-Held Ukraine Faces 'Considerable' COVID-19 Threat". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
  14. ^ "Оперативна інформація про поширення та профілактику COVID-19" (in Ukrainian). Ministry of Healthcare. 24 February 2022. Archived from the original on 5 January 2021.
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