Six regions not ready to ease lockdown measures – Health Ministry
In particular, Volyn, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Ternopil, and Chernihiv regions are not ready to weaken quarantine yet.
Information on the spread of coronavirus in Crimea and the city of Sevastopol is not available.
The Health Ministry explains that regions with high prevalence of COVID-19 are considered to be regions that have one of the following indicators: the occupancy of beds in health facilities intended for hospitalization of patients with confirmed COVID-19 exceeds 50%; the average number of PCR and ELISA tests conducted during the past seven days is less than 24 per 100,000 population; the detection rate of COVID-19 is more than 11%; the growth rate of COVID-19 is more than 10%.
As reported, the total number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ukraine reached 61,851 as of July 23, including 856 new cases which were reported over the course of the past day.
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