Kyiv Mayor’s Coronavirus Update – June 22, 2020
22.06.2020
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: I continue to update you on the coronavirus situation in Kyiv.
Over the weekend new 192 coronavirus positive cases have been registered in Kyiv, with 43 over the past 24 hours. The total number of coronavirus cases in Kyiv reached 4368. There are two more fatalities, raising the death toll to 98. New cases include 98 women (21-92 years old), 77 men (18-100 years old) and 17 children. Five more medical workers tested positive.
19 patients were admitted to hospitals. There are also 59 new recoveries, bringing their number to 1391.
Most cases came from Shevchenkivsky district (22), Svytoshynsky and Dniprovsky districts, 20 and 19 respectively.
Kyiv is further boosting the testing capacity because increasingly more people with coronavirus and pneumonia symptoms seek medical help. Currently, this rate stands at 67 tests performed per each 100,000 population.
The Kyiv Central Laboratory under Ukraine’s Health Ministry has performed about 40,000 PCR tests since the beginning of the outbreak. Mobile resting groups collected almost 24,500 samples. The tests are available at four municipal laboratories, privately-owned and state health facilities.
Let me also inform that according to the ruling of the Kyiv Emergency Commission, owners of consumer services, retail networks as well as restaurants and cafes are required to routinely test their employees once per month with COVID-19 antibody tests.