The number of people infected since the beginning of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in Ukraine has exceeded 1.5 million. As of Thursday morning, 15,053 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded, some 6,514 people recovered and 267 patients died, Health Minister of Ukraine Maksym Stepanov said.

"Some 15,053 new cases of COVID-19 disease were recorded in Ukraine as of March 18, 2021. In particular, 744 children and 425 medical workers fell ill. Over the past day, some 4,376 people were hospitalized; some 267 people died; some 6,514 people recovered," Stepanov said on his Facebook page on Thursday morning.

A day earlier, on March 17, some 11,833 new cases of COVID-19 disease were reported; on March 16, some 9,642 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded; on March 15, some 6,792 new cases of COVID-19 and on March 14, some 9,012 new cases of the disease were reported. On March 13, there were 13,276 new cases of COVID-19; some 12,946 new cases of COVID-19 infection were recorded on March 12; some 9,084 new cases of the disease were reported on March 11 and 6,377 new cases were recorded on March 10.

The number of infected people since the beginning of the pandemic on Thursday morning was 1.504 million people, some 29,253 people died from COVID-19, and some 1.244 million people recovered.

Over the past day, the largest number of confirmed cases was registered in Kyiv (1,092), Zhytomyr (1,398), Lviv (1,092), Odesa (997) and Khmelnytsky (800) regions.