As of Tuesday morning, some 8,513 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease were recorded in Ukraine, some 14,020 people recovered and 232 patients died, the Health Minister of Ukraine Maksym Stepanov said.

"Some 8,513 new cases of COVID-19 disease were recorded in Ukraine as of December 22, 2020. In particular, 415 children and 368 medical workers fell ill. Some 1,318 people were hospitalized, some 232 people died and 14,020 recovered people over the past day," Stepanov wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday morning.

A day earlier, on December 21, some 6,545 cases of COVID-19 were recorded, some 8,325 new cases were reported on December 20, there were 11,742 cases on December 19, some 12,630 new cases of the disease were reported on December 18.

The number of people infected since the beginning of the pandemic on Tuesday morning was 979,506 people, some 16,897 people died from COVID-19, and 600,288 people recovered.

Over the past day, the largest number of confirmed cases was registered in Kyiv (1,159), Dnipropetrovsk (992), Odesa (914), Zaporizhia (665) and Kyiv (559) regions.

Now in Ukraine, according to the site of the Monitoring System for the spread of the coronavirus epidemic of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), some 362,321 people are sick, which are 5,739 less than the day before.

The number of suspected cases of COVID-19 disease over the past day was 9,029, the NSDC said.