Update on the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection

Ministry of Health of Ukraine, posted 16 November 2020 08:47

According to the Public Health Center of Ukraine, as of November 16, in Ukraine there have been officially confirmed 9,832 (354 children out of this number, 360 healthcare workers) new cases of COVID-19 infection.

During the last 24 hours, there have been hospitalized 1,100 persons, 94 patients died, 2,753 persons recovered. There have been conducted 33,486 testing (28,685 using the PCR method and 4,801 using the ELISA method).

During the entire pandemic in Ukraine:

545,689 persons contracted COVID-19 infection;

244,197 people recovered;

9,697 people died;

3,941,651 testing have been conducted.

The largest number of confirmed cases in the last 24 hours was registered in Kyiv city (879 cases), Dnipropetrovsk region (847), Zaporizhia region (807), Kyiv region (648 cases) Odesa region (633).

The amount of people with coronavirus disease in regions:

Kyiv city

51,499

Vinnytsia region –

13,948

Volyn region –

18,936

Dnipropertovsk region –

22,069

Donetsk region –

17,201

Zhytomyr region –

22,847

Zakarpattia region –

19,559

Zaporizhia region –

19,291

Ivano-Frankivsk region –

28,440

Kyiv region –

25,141

Kirovohrad region –

3,710

Luhansk region –

5,169

Lviv region –

37,466

Mykolayiv region –

12,633

Odesa region –

33,415

Poltava region –

15,262

Rivne region –

25,210

Sumy region –

18,324

Ternopil region –

23,757

Kharkiv region –

48,179

Kherson region –

7,216

Khmelnytsky region –

23,136

Cherkasy region –

13,478

Chernivtsi region –

28,336

Chernihiv region –

11,557

Data from the temporarily occupied territories of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk regions and the city of Sevastopol are not available. The studies were conducted by the Virology Reference Laboratory of the Public Health Center of Ukraine, as well as by regional laboratories.

The Ministry of Healthcare of Ukraine urges when having the first symptoms of respiratory illnesses to call a family doctor. Stay home! Self-isolation is the most efficient way to protect yourself from infection.