How fast were Ukraine's COVID-19 cases rising by 1 December 2020?
A look back at the last days of November 2020, when daily case records were broken three days running and a football ruling shaped the national team's path.
How fast was COVID-19 spreading in Ukraine as 1 December 2020 began? The preceding days gave a clear picture: a new single-day high was set on each of three consecutive days.
On 26 November 2020, Ukraine reported 15,331 new cases in a day, bringing the total of confirmed cases to 677,189. The next day, 27 November, the daily figure rose to 16,218 and the nationwide total reached 693,407.
On 28 November, a further 16,294 cases were reported over 24 hours. That pushed the cumulative total past 700,000.
A ruling in football
Away from the pandemic, there was news for Ukrainian sport. On 25 November 2020, the UEFA appeals committee awarded a technical defeat to the Ukraine national team in its UEFA Nations League 2020–21 match against Switzerland, which had been scheduled for 17 November. As a result, Ukraine was to play in League B in the following season.
Taken together, these reports described the situation on the eve of 1 December 2020: case counts that had climbed by roughly a thousand a day over the three days before the end of November, a national total above 700,000, and a sporting setback for the national football team.
