page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine
section_title: March 2020
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine / Timeline / March 2020
caption_attribution_description: Українська: women wearing mask during the COVID-19 pandemic in Khmelnytskyi, April 2020
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Ukraine is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Ukraine when the country's first case was confirmed to be hospitalized in Chernivtsi Oblast on 3 March 2020, a man who had travelled from Italy to Romania by plane and then arrived in Ukraine by car.
  An emergency was declared on 20 March in Kiev Oblast, Chernivtsi Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, and the city of Kiev.
  Statistics for the Russian-held Autonomous Republic of Crimea and city of Sevastopol, and for the unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in eastern Ukraine, are not reported by Ukraine's state agencies, and not included in the country's totals.
context_section_description: On 3 March, Ukraine announced its first confirmed SARS-CoV-2 case, a man who had travelled from Italy to Romania by plane and then arrived in Ukraine by car.
  On 12 March, two more SARS-CoV-2 cases were confirmed in Ukraine. The diagnosis was confirmed for a man in the Chernivtsi Oblast, whose wife had recently returned from Italy, and for a 71-year-old woman in the Zhytomyr Oblast, who had returned from Poland on 1 March. The woman, from Radomyshl, in the Zhytomyr Oblast, died on 13 March, becoming the first fatal case in the country.
  On 16 March, two new cases were confirmed in the Chernivtsi Oblast, and two others in Kiev. In Kiev, one of the persons concerned was a student who had contacted the infected woman in the Zhytomyr Oblast, while the other was a woman who had returned from France.
  On 17 March, six more cases were confirmed in the Chernivtsi Oblast, all of them had contacted the previously known case, including a 33-year-old woman who died. The first cases of children being infected were reported. One case was confirmed in the Kiev Oblast, a man who had recently come from abroad, who was later confirmed to be a People's Deputy of Ukraine.
  On 18 March, member of the Ukrainian parliament Serhii Shakhov stated that he was SARS-CoV-2 positive after denying it earlier in the day. Kyiv Post counted Shakhov as being among the total of 14 people in Ukraine with laboratory confirmations of being SARS-CoV-2 positive.
  Later that day, two new cases were announced: the second one for the Kiev Oblast (the wife of the man earlier reported) and the first one for the Donetsk Oblast (a 52-year-old man who had visited Egypt).
  On 19 March, the third case was confirmed in Kiev (a person who had travelled from Switzerland), and the second in the Zhytomyr Oblast (a 56-year-old man from Zhytomyr who had returned from Austria). The same day, the first cases were reported in the Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, also five new cases were reported in the Chernivtsi Oblast, thereby increasing the total number of infected in Ukraine to 26.
  On 20 March, the first case of recovery from COVID-19 was reported for a man in Chernivtsi who was the first infected person in the country. On the same day, 15 new positive COVID-19 tests were confirmed across Ukraine: Chernivtsi Oblast (10 additional cases), Lviv Oblast (a 59-year-old doctor who had come back from Germany), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (one case), Kharkiv Oblast (first case), Kiev Oblast (one case), Ternopil Oblast (first case). It increased the total number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine to 41. The case from the Kharkiv Oblast was a woman who had been diagnosed in Kiev, and was being treated in Kiev, and on 21 March was transferred from the statistics for Kharkiv to those for Kiev.
  On 21 March, according to the Ministry of Health, the total confirmed cases in Ukraine was 47. There were either six or seven new cases confirmed in Kiev bringing the total to ten (of these eight had caught the disease abroad). In the Donetsk Oblast, the first case of coronavirus was recorded and an emergency was declared in the oblast. The first patient was confirmed in Lutsk, and in disputed Crimea. There were 417 people suspected of having coronavirus in Crimea and Sevastopol at the end of 21 March.
  As of 10:00 on 23 March, there were 73 confirmed cases in Ukraine. During the previous 24 hours, 26 new cases were confirmed.
  As of 10:00 on 24 March, 11 new cases had been confirmed in Ukraine during the previous 24 hours, bringing the total to 84 confirmed cases. This was later raised to 97 confirmed cases. The head of the Chernivtsi Oblast state administration, Serhiy Osachuk, said that 13 new cases of the disease had been confirmed in Chernivtsi Oblast. There were 38 infected people in the Ukrainian part of Bukovina.
  At 10:00 on 25 March, the Ministry of Health stated that 29 new cases had been confirmed in Ukraine during the previous 24 hours, bringing the total to 113 confirmed cases.  These included the first case in the Volyn Oblast, the first two cases in the Zaporizhia Oblast, two more cases
caption: Wearing a face mask in public places was made obligatory in Ukraine on April 6.
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