Mayor Klitschko Coronavirus Upd – June 18
18.06.2021
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: Over the past 24 hours 207 persons tеstеd pоsіtіvе for COVID-19. Among them are 119 women (age range 19-94 years), 83 men (19-78 years old) and five children. Three more medical workers got infected. 39 people were hospitalized, including 33 patients with positive coronavirus diagnosis.
As of today, the total number of coronavirus cases in Kyiv is 211,895. There are 202,267 recoveries from the infection, with 244 in the past 24 hours. There are three more Covid-related fatalities, bringing the death toll to 5,168.
Dniprovsky district leads, with 45 new cases.
Currently, 278 patients are being treated in hospitals in Kyiv. 174 in-patients are very ill, eight of them are on a ventilator and 253 more under oxygen therapy. Both the bed occupancy rate and oxygen bed occupancy rate stands at almost eight per cent.
Kyiv steps up the vaccination campaign. A total of 248,000 people have been vaccinated so far in Kyiv, including those 35,000 with the second dose. Almost 48,000 healthcare workers and over 40,700 education workers in Kyiv have already received the first dose of a vaccine (the latter are given the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine).
Members of the general public who have previously booked in via the Diya portal and waitlisted for their vaccine will be invited by primary care physicians to receive their shot in vaccination offices. Booking a vaccination appointment through your family doctor makes the whole vaccination procedure easier and takes only 5-7 minutes, unlike a no-contract appointment that takes up to 30 minutes.
The vaccination hub opened on the premises of the International Exhibition Centre continues to operate. In total, about 17,000 vaccinees have been inoculated there since it opened, about 6,500 people only last weekend.
Increasing the vaccination rate we have deployed up to 30 mobile vaccination teams working in the hub.
This week the hub operates also on weekdays. Tomorrow it will close earlier, at 2 p.m. It is expected that due to a long weekend ahead people will be reluctant to take a vaccine. Kyivans were notified in advance of the hub’s revised working hours.
The city government has already started to prepare for the upcoming school year and committed ₴1.8 billion to renovate education facilities. Also, we continue to support teachers to the best of our ability and have set aside ₴2,8 billion for their extra payments. A school principal in Kyiv earns an average of ₴25,000 to ₴30,000 a month with all bonus payments.
Every year we renovate and build new kindergartens, delivering more and more nursery places. Only last year we opened four kindergartens – both brand-new reconstructed. In 2017 we implemented introduced an online kindergarten enrollment scheme. This year 19,000 children are already enrolled in preschools using an online application. There are also about 9,000 vacant nursery places across the city.
Since 2019 the municipality has been running a project ‘Money follows a child’ which preserves open kindergarten places for children from Kyiv and enables parents in Kyiv to receive a local reimbursement for private preschools for their kids. Last year over 1,500 such families applied for such reimbursement from the municipality.