Zelensky updates on COVID-19 statistics / Photo from president.gov.ua
Some 246 patients have recovered, the Health Ministry said.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that 150 people have already died of the novel coronavirus in Ukraine.
"The statistics are true, as it is: We have a little more than 4,500 patients now, of whom 150 are fatal [cases]," he said on a Ukrainian TV channel on April 17.
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As UNIAN reported earlier, there were 4,662 lab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ukraine as of 9:00 a.m. Kyiv time on April 17, according to Ukraine's Health Ministry. The death toll was 125 people, 246 patients have recovered.
Some 501 new coronavirus cases, including almost a hundred doctors, were confirmed from 09:00 a.m. on April 16 to 09:00 a.m. on April 17. Fifty children were among the new cases.