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Again, set a record number of deaths in Ukraine.
The spread of the coronavirus epidemic in Ukraine is not slowing down, another record was broken on Saturday:
the number of deaths increased by 72 in one day, 3,148 people lost their lives in connection with the virus since the outbreak.
The number of new patients is also approaching a record: 3103. This increased the number of infected people identified so far to 151,859.
The number of healed was 68,346; 1341 more than a day before.
Currently, 80,365 patients are being treated for coronavirus infection, an increase of 1,690 in one day.
Since the start of the epidemic, the majority of new infections, 3,144, were registered just one day earlier, on Thursday, and the majority of previous patients who died in one day, 57, were registered on Monday.
By region, the day before, most of the new patients, 428, as well as five deaths, were registered in the capital, Kiev. With this, the capital has become the most infected region in the country, ahead of the Lviv region in western Ukraine, which leads the list so far. In Kiev, the number of infected identified reached 16,951, while in the Lviv region, 16,774 have been registered so far. The number of deaths in the capital rose to 266, in the Lviv region with four more cases to 468.
The second newest patients, 292 and six deaths, were recorded in Kharkov Oblast in eastern Ukraine, and the third largest, 280 and two more deaths, were recorded in Ternopil county in the western part of the country. last day.
In Transcarpathia, according to current data, 8,532 infected people have been identified so far, the number of deaths has increased from two to 282, while 3,690 have been defeated since the start of the epidemic.
According to Saturday’s report from the Ukrainian news portal Pravda Maxim Stepanov The health minister said it was conceivable on a television show that with such rapid growth in Covid patients, there would soon not be enough doctors to treat them. According to the head of the ministry, in terms of the number of infected people identified, Ukraine is now seventh among European countries and 24th among countries in the world.
Stepanov told a briefing on Saturday that 178 other healthcare workers had contracted the virus, of whom 12,783 had been infected since the outbreak. Even last day, some 481 coronavirus patients had to be hospitalized.
In our highlight: former President Petro Poroshenko and Maxim Stepanov, Minister of Health; photo: AFP
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