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Update on the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus infection

Ministry of Health of Ukraine, posted 29 December 2020 08:57

According to the Public Health Center of Ukraine, as of December 29, in Ukraine, there have been officially confirmed 6,988 (324 children out of this number, 337 healthcare workers) new cases of COVID-19 infection. The number of active cases makes up 337,446.

During the last 24 hours, there have been hospitalized 1,298 persons, 232 patients died, 16,106 persons recovered. There have been conducted 43,585 testing (25,965 using the PCR method and 17,620 using the ELISA method).

During the entire pandemic in Ukraine:

  • 1,037,362 persons contracted COVID-19 infection;
  • 681,835 people recovered;
  • 18,081 people died;
  • 5,511,179 testing have been conducted.

The largest number of confirmed cases in the last 24 hours was registered in Kyiv city (953), Odesa region (729), Poltava region (644), Lviv region (555), Zaporizhia region (514).

The number of people with coronavirus disease in regions:

Kyiv city

109,008

Vinnytsia region –

22,078

Volyn region –

32,626

Dnipropetrovsk region –

57,632

Donetsk region –

35,562

Zhytomyr region –

38,554

Zakarpattia region –

27,974

Zaporizhia region –

52,689

Ivano-Frankivsk region –

42,949

Kyiv region –

57,912

Kirovohrad region –

8,248

Luhansk region –

10,054

Lviv region –

60,560

Mykolayiv region –

30,300

Odesa region –

69,863

Poltava region –

35,487

Rivne region –

40,459

Sumy region –

40,170

Ternopil region –

33,622

Kharkiv region –

68,395

Kherson region –

17,327

Khmelnytsky region –

38,471

Cherkasy region –

38,302

Chernivtsi region –

39,662

Chernihiv region –

29,458


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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