Coronavirus in Ukraine

National guard soldiers wearing protective masks stand guard at the entrance of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, where multiple cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease have been confirmed, and which was closed for quarantine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on 13 April, 2020. Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko has said the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra has been shut down for quarantine amid a sharp spark of the coronavirus Covid-19 incidence at the site that headquarters the Russian-backed church in Ukraine, as local media reported. Over the past 24 hours, a record number of people in Kyiv have confirmed coronavirus disease - 79 people, of these, 63 cases are in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. In total, there are already 495 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Kyiv on 13 April 2020, according to media.