As of Friday morning, some 5,181 new cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were recorded in Ukraine, 11,310 people recovered, 128 patients died, Health Minister of Ukraine Maksym Stepanov said.

"Some 5,181 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in Ukraine as of January 29, 2021. In particular, 218 children and 212 medical workers fell ill. Also 1,916 people were hospitalized, 128 people died and 11,310 people recovered over the past day," Stepanov wrote on his Facebook page on Friday morning.

A day earlier, on January 28, some 5,529 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded; on January 27, some 3,776 new cases of the disease were reported; on January 25, the minister reported 2,516 new cases of coronavirus infection; on January 26, 2,779 new cases of the disease were reported, on January 24, some 3,915 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded; on January 23, some 4,928 new COVID-19 cases were recorded.

The number of infected people since the beginning of the pandemic on Friday morning was 1.206 people, some 22,351 people died from COVID-19, and 992,031 people recovered. Over the past day, the largest number of confirmed cases was registered in Lviv region (454), Kyiv (396), Kharkiv (313), Mykolaiv (308) and Dnipropetrovsk (296) regions.

The number of people infected since the beginning of the pandemic on Friday morning was 1million 211,593 people, 22,479 people died from COVID-19, 1 million 3,341 people recovered.

Over the past day, the largest number of confirmed cases was registered in Lviv region (440), in Kyiv (361), Ivano-Frankivsk (356), Kyiv (326) and Vinnytsia (238) regions.