In Ukraine, as of Sunday, October 24, 20,791 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed, during the epidemic, 2.7 million Ukrainians were infected with the coronavirus, the press service of the Ministry of Health reports..

During the day 6,081 people were discharged from hospitals, 5,924 were hospitalized, 386 patients could not cope with the complications of the disease.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, covid has become fatal for 63.8 thousand Ukrainians, 2.3 million people have had it.

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The stock of test kits for detecting coronavirus will be enough until the end of the first quarter of 2022 - Lyashko [/ see_also].

A new wave of coronavirus in Ukraine began earlier than scientists predicted, and is more intense than last year. Today Ukraine ranks seventh in the world in terms of the growth of morbidity (according to analysts at Johns Hopkins University).

On Thursday, October 21, Ukraine recorded two coronavirus anti-records at once: in the number of new cases (22 415) and deaths from complications (546). And the number of hospitalizations during the new wave has set an all-time high.

More than 94% of critically ill patients in intensive care units are not vaccinated with a single dose of covid vaccine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned: the domestic health care system will not withstand the growth of hospitalizations, an alternative can only be a lockdown.

Since September 23, the entire territory of Ukraine is in the " In all regions, new rules for quarantine and interregional transportation are in force. At the same time, restrictions are being strengthened in the regions, in the \; from October 26, Nikolaevskaya and Rivnenskaya.