As of Monday morning, 2,141 new cases of the coronavirus (COVID-19) disease were recorded in Ukraine, 2,697 people recovered, and 47 patients died, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said.

"Some 2,141 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in Ukraine as of February 8, 2021. In particular, 130 children and 71 health workers fell ill. Also, over the past day, 1,020 people were hospitalized, 47 people died and 2,697 people recovered," Stepanov wrote on his Facebook page on Monday morning.

A day earlier, on February 7, some 3,370 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded, on February 6, some 4,310 new cases of disease were reported, on February 5, some 4,923 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded, on February 4, there were 5,082 new cases of the disease, on February 3, there were 3,285 new cases of COVID-19 infection, 2,394 cases of COVID-19 were recorded on February 2, and 2,030 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded on February 1.

The number of infected people since the beginning of the pandemic on Monday morning was 1.247 million people, 23,644 people died, and 1.076 million people recovered.

Over the past day, the largest number of confirmed cases was registered in Ivano-Frankivsk (398), Zhytomyr (176), Dnipropetrovsk (156), Chernivtsi (143) and Zakarpattia (133) regions.