Update on the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection

Ministry of Health of Ukraine, posted 08 December 2020 08:45

According to the Public Health Center of Ukraine, as of December 8, in Ukraine, there have been officially confirmed 10,811 (520 children out of this number, 512 healthcare workers) new cases of COVID-19 infection. The number of active cases makes up 382,266.

During the last 24 hours, there have been hospitalized 1,319 persons, 195 patients died, 12,860 persons recovered. There have been conducted 55,070 testing (30,718 using the PCR method and 24,352 using the ELISA method).

During the entire pandemic in Ukraine:

  • 832,758 persons contracted COVID-19 infection;
  • 436,564 people recovered;
  • 13,928 people died;
  • 4,838,679 testing have been conducted.

The largest number of confirmed cases in the last 24 hours was registered in Kyiv city (1,475), Odesa region (1,043), Zaporizhia region (948), Poltava region (916) and Cherkasy region (746).

The number of people with coronavirus disease in regions:

Kyiv city

82810

Vinnytsia region –

18824

Volyn region –

26475

Dnipropetrovsk region –

45752

Donetsk region –

26235

Zhytomyr region –

32354

Zakarpattia region –

24886

Zaporizhia region –

37885

Ivano-Frankivsk region –

39541

Kyiv region –

44554 

Kirovohrad region –

6418

Luhansk region –

7141

Lviv region –

50787

Mykolayiv region –

21798

Odesa region –

52853

Poltava region –

26571

Rivne region –

34088

Sumy region –

33904

Ternopil region –

29788

Kharkiv region –

59393

Kherson region –

12159

Khmelnytsky region –

32429

Cherkasy region –

27167

Chernivtsi region –

35378

Chernihiv region –

21442

 

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.