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Update on the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection

Ministry of Health of Ukraine, posted 24 December 2020 08:52

According to the Public Health Center of Ukraine, as of December 24, in Ukraine there have been officially confirmed 11,490 (488 children out of this number, 445 healthcare workers) new cases of COVID-19 infection. The number of active cases makes up 352,302.

During the last 24 hours, there have been hospitalized 2,721 persons, 223 patients died, 15,775 persons recovered. There have been conducted 66,358 testing (42,132 using the PCR method and 24,226 using the ELISA method).

During the entire pandemic in Ukraine:

  • 1,001,132 persons contracted COVID-19 infection;
  • 631,435 people recovered;
  • 17,395 people died;
  • 5,390,952 testing have been conducted.

The largest number of confirmed cases in the last 24 hours was registered in Kyiv city (1,377), Zaporizhia region (774), Odesa region (676), Kyiv region (666), Donetsk region (636).

The number of people with coronavirus disease in regions:

Kyiv city

105,040

Vinnytsia region –

21,490

Volyn region –

31,917

Dnipropetrovsk region –

55,174

Donetsk region –

33,738

Zhytomyr region –

37,468

Zakarpattia region –

27,543

Zaporizhia region –

50,115

Ivano-Frankivsk region –

42,482

Kyiv region –

55,497

Kirovohrad region –

8,090

Luhansk region –

9,443

Lviv region –

58,372

Mykolayiv region –

28,351

Odesa region –

66,971

Poltava region –

33,509

Rivne region –

39,634

Sumy region –

38,923

Ternopil region –

32,972

Kharkiv region –

66,788

Kherson region –

16,408

Khmelnytsky region –

37,600

Cherkasy region –

36,418

Chernivtsi region –

38,914

Chernihiv region –

28,275

 

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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