Mayor Klitschko Coronavirus Upd – June 11
11.06.2021
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: Here are the latest developments in the coronavirus situation in Kyiv and our response.
Over the past 24 hours, new cases rose by 217, totalling 210,520. Two new cases are medical professionals.
Newly infected are 122 women, aged 19-74 and 79 men, aged 21-89, and 16 children.
2,037 more people recovered overnight, taking the total recoveries to 192,976. Two new fatalities raised the Covid-19 death toll to 5,144.
104 patients were admitted to the hospitals in the past 24 hours, including those 77 with suspected diagnosis. In total, there are 319 coronavirus in-patients. At least 297 of them are under oxygen therapy. 204 patients are severely affected, nine are put on a ventilator.
The bed occupancy rate reaches six per cent, oxygen-supported beds are almost ten per cent full.
Darnitsky district is the most affected, with 45 new virus transmissions overnight.
Along with the rest of the regions, Kyiv continues with the Covid-19 vaccination programme. A total of 187,000 people have been vaccinated so far, including those 23,000 with the second dose. Mainly they are medical professionals, municipal social service and education workers, Paralympic athletes and people with disabilities.
Since June 2 over 20,000 education workers have already received the first dose of the Comirnati vaccine produced by Pfizer-BioNTech in 17 vaccination offices deployed the education facilities.
Starting June 14 the city starts vaccinating the officials of legislative, executive and judicial branches of the national, regional and local governments and the local self-governing bodies.
All vaccines are being provided by the Health Ministry and the vaccination rollout is scheduled according to the roadmap set by the Ministry which allocates the doses, prioritise the recipients and their turn to get vaccinated.
This weekend the vaccination hub opened on the premises of the International Exhibition Centre will continue to operate. In total, over 8,500 Kyivans have been inoculated there since it opened, about 5,000 people only last weekend.
To improve the performance of the hub and speed up the rollout we will change the booking procedure. Now one must schedule the date and time slot for an inoculation session and then show the confirmation about the scheduled appointment along with a passport and registration on the Diya portal at the hub. Also, we recommend contracting with a primary care physician in advance to save time and make the scheduling procedure easier.
Beach season starts soon in Kyiv and 14 beaches already prepare for visitors, albeit they will remain closed until the temperature of the water reaches 17 degrees. Beaches have many comfortable beach resting options as well as lifeguard surveillance towers where beach rescuers will work. In total, 120 lifeguards, as well as frogmen and municipal rescuers, will supervise the safety of beaches this year.
18 more areas are open for out-of-water recreational activities.
This year nine more municipal beaches have applied for a Blue Flag.
Stay healthy and safe!