Almost 10,000 children in Lviv are now ill with COVID-19 and SARS – there has not been such a dynamic throughout the entire pandemic.

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyy said this during a briefing, Ukrinform reports..

" Today 27 thousand children did not come to school. There are about 10 thousand patients, and the rest went into self-isolation in whole classes.. And at the request of teachers and school directors, we send students in grades 5-11 to distance learning,"

Also, according to him, already on Monday "

In addition, the mayor said that only yesterday the children's city hospital began to receive patients with coronavirus, and this morning there were already 23 children.. Now 30 beds with access to oxygen have been deployed there, but if necessary, they will be increased to 100.. Lviv regional hospital " Although 304 people were hospitalized in city hospitals among the adult population.

“I note that now a large number of janitors in the city have fallen ill, more than 10% of public transport drivers have fallen ill. That is, a very serious wave is coming and it looks like this is only the beginning. We analyze the dynamics in European countries and expect that in a week and a half we will have a peak,"

In the Lviv region, for the entire time of the pandemic, COVID-19 was confirmed in 232,993 people, over the past day - 1989. Died - 6130 people.