Six regions remain in ‘red’ zone – Ministry of Health

Six regions in Ukraine remain in the “red” zone of the COVID-19 quarantine, Ukrinform reports with reference to data published on the Ukrainian Ministry of Health's website.

As of May 5, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Khmelnytskyi, and Chernihiv regions are in the “red” zone. The “yellow” zone includes Kyiv city, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Zakarpattia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Kherson and Chernivtsi regions. Other regions are in the “orange” zone.

As of May 4, the COVID-19-associated hospitalization rates (60 per 100,000 people) in the regions were not exceeded.

As of May 4, the COVID-19-associated hospitalization rate in Kyiv city was 38.9. The rate for oxygen-supplied beds in Kyiv was 44.4% (with the established capacity set at 65%).

According to the Ministry of Health, no region exceeded the rates for oxygen-supplied beds as of May 4.

As Ukrinform reported, the Cabinet of Ministers approved a resolution on the extension of adaptive quarantine in Ukraine until June 30, with four levels of epidemic danger.

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