As of Thursday morning, some 17,569 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease were recorded in Ukraine, some 9,602 recovered and some 421 patients died, Ukrainian Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said.

"Some 17,569 new cases of COVID-19 disease were recorded in Ukraine as of April 1, 2021. In particular, 813 children and 486 medical workers fell ill. Over the past day, some 5,160 people were hospitalized; some 421 people died; some 9,602 people recovered," Stepanov said on his Facebook page on Thursday.

The day before, on March 21, some 11,226 new COVID-19 cases were recorded; there were 10,533 new cases of COVID-19 on March 30; some 8,346 new cases were reported on March 29; some 11,932 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded on March 28; some 17,424 new cases of infection were recorded on 27 March; a record number of 18,132 new infections were reported on March 26 from the beginning of the pandemic.

The number of infected people since the beginning of the pandemic on Thursday morning was 1.692 million people, some 33,246 patients died, some 1.323 people recovered.

Over the past day, the largest number of confirmed cases was registered in Kyiv (1,150), Odesa (1,305), Khmelnytsky (1,142), Lviv (1,141) and Zhytomyr (1,037) regions.