Kyiv Mayor’s Coronavirus Update – June 4
04.06.2021
The mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko held a briefing providing an update on the coronavirus situation in Ukraine’s capital and the measures the city is taking to respond.
Klitschko: The coronavirus situation in Kyiv remains stable and the infections are slowing down. However, the risk of a new surge is still looming, so let us not forget about the simple rules to stay safe and healthy.
Over the past 24 hours, the number of infections rose by 566. In total there are 208,439 laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kyiv. 337 women (aged 20-89), 205 men (18-85 years old) and 24 children were proved positive overnight. Among the new cases are 15 medical workers. 92 patients were admitted to the city’s hospitals, including 43 with suspected coronavirus diagnosis.
3,334 Kyivans recovered taking the total number of recoveries up to 179,584. 11 more deaths are bringing the death toll to 5,116.
The majority of new coronavirus cases, 140 came from Solomiansky district.
Currently, coronavirus hospitals in Kyiv operate at eight per cent capacity. The current oxygen bed occupancy rate reaches ten per cent. 408 patients are currently being treated in hospitals. 320 of them are seriously ill, 391 patients require oxygen therapy and 12 invasive ventilation.
The testing capacity for Covid-19 in Kyiv remains the highest in Ukraine and exceeds 390 tests performed per 100,000 population. The testing procedure is easily available. Tests are being performed at 71 testing collection centres in municipal-run health facilities and available at no out-of-pocket cost if done by appointment of a family doctor. The mobile response brigades continue to collect samples of the people with symptoms at home. About 515 disabled Kyivans and the elderly population tested for the infection at home in the past week.
I want to remark, that the municipal authority does everything possible to ensure safe national testing. The safety measures and intensified cleaning routines are in place in all 183 schools running the testing. Those facilities have received enough sanitisers and PPE. A temperature screening for children and staff is mandatory before each session. Paramedics are being assigned to each of those schools to monitor the situation.
Due to the pandemic restrictions, school summer camps will stay closed during summer but 42 kids activity centres and workshops will operate in June as expected. Almost 80,000 kids will attend them this summer.
12 nursery groups in 12 kindergartens are temporarily closed due to the detected infections. One kindergarten is quarantined. The attendance rate is over 46 per cent.
You might know that the vaccination hub opened on the premises of the International Exhibition Centre last weekend during which about 3,500 people received their first dose of CoronaVac vaccine provided by the Health Ministry.
We have reflected on its performance and improved it to ensure there are no long wait lines at the vaccination hub. We are going to redistribute people flows to avoid overcrowding this weekend. The first flow includes members of the general public who have previously booked in via the Diya platform and are invited to have their vaccine by text message. They will be asked to show the information about the scheduled appointment.
The second flow includes those Kyivans who have booked ahead but failed to get a scheduled appointment and those who would come late. They shоuld bе рrераrеd to wait their turn.
This week the city has received a batch of 125,000 doses of Comirnati vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech which will be administered to education workers. We have already deployed 17 vaccination offices where almost 4,800 teachers have received their vaccine shot.
As of today, a total of 136,000 people have been vaccinated, including those 16,500 with the second dose. Mainly they are medical professionals, municipal social service and education workers, Paralympic athletes and people with disabilities.