Ukraine records 12,585 COVID-19 cases per day – Stepanov

09:17, 09.12.2020 1 min read

As of Wednesday morning, some 12,585 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease were recorded in Ukraine, some 14,554 people recovered and 276 patients died, Ukrainian Health Minister Maksym Stepanov has said.

"Some 12,585 new cases of COVID-19 disease were recorded in Ukraine as of December 9, 2020. In particular, 654 children and 682 medical workers fell ill. Some 1,281 people were hospitalized, some 276 people died and 14,554 people recovered over the past day," Stepanov wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday morning.

A day earlier, on December 8, some 10,811 new cases were reported; there were 8,641 new cases on December 7; some 11,590 cases were recorded on December 6; some 13,825 new cases were registered on December 5.

The number of people infected since the start of the pandemic on Wednesday morning was 845,343 people, while 14,204 people died from COVID-19 and 451,118 people recovered.

Over the past day, the largest number of confirmed cases was registered in Kyiv city (1,728), Odesa (1,270), Kyiv (943), Cherkasy (815) and Zaporizhia (813) regions.