Delta variant may cause surge in COVID-19 cases in Ukraine in two weeks - Radutskyi

According to Ukrinform, he said this, commenting on a forecast made by Kyiv School of Economics.

"Kyiv School of Economics believes that an outbreak of the disease may happen within two weeks. According to KSE, the risk zone includes the Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia and Khmelnytskyi regions," Radutskyi said.

He said the WHO had recently predicted that Ukraine could face a new wave of coronavirus in late August or early September. And these predictions almost coincide, he said.

"The main cause of the outbreak is the spread of the Delta variant. About 150 cases have already been confirmed in Ukraine. A recent study in China shows that the concentration of the virus in the blood of an infected person in the case of the Delta variant is a thousand times higher than in the case of the Chinese strain. The patient is much more likely to infect other people," Radutskyi wrote.

He noted that the Delta variant has other symptoms - fever, headache, sore throat and runny nose, as well as cases of hearing loss, gastrointestinal problems and blood clots.

Some 1,081 new coronavirus cases were registered in Ukraine on August 5. As many as 167,383 people were vaccinated against COVID-19 in the country over the past day.

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