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Update on the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection

Ministry of Health of Ukraine, posted 18 December 2020 08:53

According to the Public Health Center of Ukraine, as of December 18, in Ukraine there have been officially confirmed 12,630 (620 children out of this number, 552 healthcare workers) new cases of COVID-19 infection. The number of active cases makes up 366,903.

During the last 24 hours, there have been hospitalized 2,904 persons, 260 patients died, 12,866 persons recovered. There have been conducted 68,759 testing (42,340 using the PCR method and 26,419 using the ELISA method).

During the entire pandemic in Ukraine:

  • 944,381 persons contracted COVID-19 infection;
  • 561,222 people recovered;
  • 16,256 people died;
  • 5,209,462 testing have been conducted.

The largest number of confirmed cases in the last 24 hours was registered in Kyiv city (1,658), Zaporizhia region (1,022), Odesa region (925), Kyiv region (922), Cherkasy region (583).

The number of people with coronavirus disease in regions:

Kyiv city

98330

Vinnytsia region –

20578

Volyn region –

29817

Dnipropetrovsk region –

51401

Donetsk region –

31449

Zhytomyr region –

35662

Zakarpattia region –

26855

Zaporizhia region –

44693

Ivano-Frankivsk region –

41356

Kyiv region –

50666

Kirovohrad region –

7515

Luhansk region –

8359

Lviv region –

55291

Mykolayiv region –

25287

Odesa region –

61038

Poltava region –

30783

Rivne region –

37417

Sumy region –

36599

Ternopil region –

31874

Kharkiv region –

63732

Kherson region –

14858

Khmelnytsky region –

35632

Cherkasy region –

33254

Chernivtsi region –

37467

Chernihiv region –

25917

 

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.

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