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    Update on the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection
    Ministry of Health of Ukraine, posted 17 December 2020 09:08
    Healthcare Supervision and control

    According to the Public Health Center of Ukraine, as of December 17, in Ukraine, there have been officially confirmed 12,047 (594 children out of this number, 535 healthcare workers) new cases of COVID-19 infection. The number of active cases makes up 367,399.

    During the last 24 hours, there have been hospitalized 2,997 persons, 252 patients died, 12,939 persons recovered. There have been conducted 65,561testing (41,733 using the PCR method and 23,828 using the ELISA method).

    During the entire pandemic in Ukraine:

    • 931,751 persons contracted COVID-19 infection;
    • 548,356 people recovered;
    • 15,996 people died;
    • 5,167,122 testing have been conducted.

    The largest number of confirmed cases in the last 24 hours was registered in Kyiv city (1,512), Odesa region (1,064), Zaporizhia region (858), Kyiv region (626), Chernihiv region (587).

    The number of people with coronavirus disease in regions:

    Kyiv city

    96672

    Vinnytsia region –

    20319

    Volyn region –

    29390

    Dnipropetrovsk region –

    50894

    Donetsk region –

    30896

    Zhytomyr region –

    35157

    Zakarpattia region –

    26685

    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.