{"id":1283332,"date":"2025-08-21T15:12:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/covid-19-mortality-rate-increases-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:12:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T12:12:13","slug":"covid-19-mortality-rate-increases-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/covid-19-mortality-rate-increases-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Mortality Rate Increases in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"135\" data-end=\"355\"><strong>Ukraine is recording a new increase in coronavirus cases. In two weeks of August, 10 people died from complications caused by COVID-19 in Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Chernihiv regions and Kyiv.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"575\"> This is known from the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/ukrainian\/articles\/c4ge8g529q8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">material<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"575\"> Over the past week, more than 3.5 thousand cases of infection were registered &#8211; three times more than last week. At the same time, the Ministry of Health emphasizes that such statistics correspond to seasonal indicators.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"577\" data-end=\"753\"> \u201cLast year there was a similar situation, when the increase in the incidence rate was observed in August, and not in October-November,\u201d explained Chief Sanitary Doctor Igor Kuzin.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"755\" data-end=\"1041\"> Health Minister Viktor Lyashko assured that currently the strains circulating in Ukraine do not have epidemic or pandemic potential. According to doctors&#8217; forecasts, the wave of cases may continue until the end of September and recur in subsequent years, but the situation is easier than in the past.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1043\" data-end=\"1116\"> The Ministry of Health called on Ukrainians to get vaccinated, especially people from risk groups.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-kyievi-strimko-zrosla-kilkist-vazhkykh-vypadkiv-covid-19-medyky-poperedyly-pro-novu-khvyliu-khvoroby\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyiv recorded a rapid increase in hospitals due to COVID-19<\/a> . Over the course of a month, the number of patients in hospitals increased more than fourfold, a quarter of whom were children.<\/p>\n<p> Let us recall that<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/pekelnyy-bil-u-horli-u-desiatkakh-krain-z-iavyvsia-novyy-variant-sovid-19\/\">22 countries around the world have recorded the rapid spread of a new variant of COVID-19<\/a> . They have already begun to call it &#8220;Nimbus&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine is recording a new increase in coronavirus cases. In two weeks of August, 10 people died from complications caused by COVID-19 in Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia, Chernihiv regions and Kyiv. This is known from the BBC material . Over the past week, more than 3.5 thousand cases of infection were registered &#8211; three times more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":768550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76878],"class_list":["post-1283332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}