Update on the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection

Ministry of Health of Ukraine, posted 17 November 2020 09:42

Healthcare Supervision and control

According to the Public Health Center of Ukraine, as of November 16, in Ukraine, there have been officially confirmed 11,968 (516 children out of this number, 565 healthcare workers) new cases of COVID-19 infection.

During the last 24 hours, there have been hospitalized 1,610 persons, 159 patients died, 6,786 persons recovered. There have been conducted 67,127 testing (37,770 using the PCR method and 29,357 using the ELISA method).

During the entire pandemic in Ukraine:

557,657 persons contracted COVID-19 infection;

250,983 people recovered;

9,856 people died;

3,979,421 testing have been conducted.

The largest number of confirmed cases in the last 24 hours was registered in Kyiv city (1143 cases), Dnipropetrovsk region (808), Odesa region (761), Cherkasy region (755), Zaporizhia region (734).

The number of people with coronavirus disease in regions:

Kyiv city

52642

Vinnytsia region –

14103

Volyn region –

19297

Dnipropetrovsk region –

22877

Donetsk region –

17713

Zhytomyr region –

23447

Zakarpattia region –

19826

Zaporizhia region –

20025

Ivano-Frankivsk region –

28972

Kyiv region –

25787

Kirovohrad region –

3753

Luhansk region –

5215

Lviv region –

37970

Mykolayiv region –

12998

Odesa region –

34176

Poltava region –

15884

Rivne region –

25596

Sumy region –

18903

Ternopil region –

23938

Kharkiv region –

48586

Kherson region –

7357

Khmelnytsky region –

23547

Cherkasy region –

14233

Chernivtsi region –

28692

Chernihiv region –

12120

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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