The tests conducted by the virus reference laboratory of the Public Health Centre of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the regional laboratory centers have confirmed 73 COVID-19 cases in Ukraine.
As the Public Health Centre posted on Facebook, coronavirus cases have been already confirmed in: Dnipropetrovsk region - 2 cases; Donetsk region - 1 case; Zhytomyr region - 2 cases (1 lethal); Ivano-Frankivsk region - 5 cases (1 lethal), including 3 cases confirmed in last 24 hours; Kyiv city - 29 cases, including 20 cases confirmed in last 24 hours; Kyiv region - 5 cases, including 1 case confirmed in last 24 hours; Lviv region - 2 cases, including 1 case confirmed in last 24 hours; Ternopil region - 1 case; Chernivtsi region - 25 cases (1 lethal, 1 recovery); Cherkasy region – 1 case confirmed in last 24 hours.
In total, three COVID-19 deaths have been reported in Ukraine. One patient recovered.
The virus reference laboratory of the Public Health Centre tests the samples of suspected persons and the established contact persons. The laboratory has already tested more than 820 samples.