On October 26th, Rivne and Mykolaiv oblasts will enter the red epidemiological level.
Ukraine nationally is now at 82.9 hospitalizations per 100k. That's higher than the worst US state peak, Florida's 80 this past August. 88.3% of beds are full in Donetsk oblast. Kherson oblast has a hospitalization rate of 137.3 per 100k.
Ukraine has surpassed its previous pandemic peak in daily new deaths and likewise for daily new hospitalizations.
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better. There are two main reasons for this third wave happening in Ukraine, vaccine scepticism, and rampant selling of fake covid credentials to get around the loosely enforced restrictions.
Both, in tandem, lead to essentially a situation where the health system is under duress and will likely lead to needless deaths despite vaccines being free and available to the population for many months now.
