Kyiv.Ukraine.Ukraine Gate-October 26,2021- In the tourist city of Morchin in the Lviv region, which in the spring participated in the experiment of the Ministry of Health on mass vaccination for the development of herd immunity against the coronavirus, none of the coronavirus patients needed hospital treatment.
Also, “As of today, only 22 people in Marsin have contracted COVID-19 (total number of active cases as of Oct 26 – Editor), eight of those patients were vaccinated, but none of them were in hospital. And this summer, it was We have no one with this disease but with the emergence of the Delta strain we have this tendency. Meanwhile, throughout this entire period, no patients have been hospitalized. They all have mild and moderate forms, so they are being treated at home in self-isolation,” Ilnitsky said. “.
The mayor shared that expectations of mass vaccination were somewhat higher: the authorities hoped that people would never get sick. However, the mayor adds, during the previous wave of coronavirus in March of this year, there were many in Marshin who were hospitalized in serious condition, and there were also some deaths.
“The experiment was successful from different points of view because there are no patients in the hospital, and if we talk about the economic factor, because that was also our motivation when we applied to the Ministry of Health, all this summer and now also, we have people vacationing here, the sanatoriums are in full capacity. According to the requirements applicable in Ukraine, 90%-100% of workers in these sanatoriums are vaccinated, so this experience greatly helped us get out of the economic and epidemic-related crisis.
As of October 26, about 75% of the adult population in the town has been infected with at least one dose.
A pilot project of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine on mass vaccination of citizens against COVID-19 for the development of herd immunity was launched in the resort of Morshyn, Lviv region, on April 16, and 70% of the adult population was vaccinated. Before the emergence of the Delta strain, no cases of COVID-19 had been confirmed in Marshin for a long time.
And during the previous day, October 25, the health authorities of the Lviv region conducted 2,831 tests for COVID-19, of which 1,104 were positive. A total of 174,464 people have been infected with the coronavirus in the Lviv region since the outbreak of the epidemic, while 4,433 people have died.
A total of 2,803,159 people have been infected with COVID-19 (19,120 in the last 24 hours), 2,390,112 have recovered, and 64,936 have succumbed to the coronavirus across Ukraine.
And 254,920 people were vaccinated against the coronavirus in the past day, of whom 185,786 received their first dose and 69,134 were fully immunized. Since the launch of the vaccination campaign, 915,480 people have been vaccinated, of whom 9,151,478 have received a single dose and 7,058,802 have been fully immunized.
94% of those hospitalized with COVID-19 in the past week have not been vaccinated.
