As of Thursday morning, some 12,047 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease were recorded in Ukraine, some 12,939 people recovered and 264 patients died, Health Minister of Ukraine Maksym Stepanov has said. "Some 12,047 new cases of COVID-19 disease were recorded in Ukraine as of December 17, 2020. In particular, 594 children and 535 medical workers fell ill. Also, some 2,997 people were hospitalized, some 252 people died and 12,939 people recovered over the past day," Stepanov wrote on his Facebook page on Thursday morning.

A day earlier, on December 16, some 10,622 new cases were reported; medical workers reported about 8,416 new cases of infection on December 15; some 6,451 new cases were recorded on December 14.

The number of people infected since the beginning of the pandemic on Thursday morning was 931,751 people, some 15,996 people died from COVID-19 and 548,356 people recovered.

Over the past day, the largest number of confirmed cases was registered in Kyiv city (1,512), Odesa (1,064), Zaporizhia (858), Kyiv (626) and Chernihiv (587) regions.