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The number of confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in Ukraine exceeded 21,000 as of Monday morning, health officials report.

"According to the Public Health Center, there were 21,245 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ukraine as of 09:00 Kyiv time on May 25," Ukraine's Health Ministry said on Facebook in its morning update on May 25.

Of them, 259 cases were reported in the past 24 hours.

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Incidence per region is as follows:

892 cases in Vinnytsia region; 783 in Volyn region; 875 in Dnipropetrovsk region; 148 in Donetsk region; 641 in Zhytomyr region; 1082 in Zakarpattia region; 415 in Zaporizhia region; 1,281 in Ivano-Frankivsk region; 478 in Kirovohrad region; 2,652 in the city of Kyiv; 1,437 in Kyiv region; 1,360 in Lviv region; 43 in Luhansk region; 281 in Mykolayiv region; 832 in Odesa region; 266 in Poltava region; 1,434 in Rivne region; 166 in Sumy region; 1,121 in Ternopil region; 912 in Kharkiv region; 177 in Kherson region; 364 in Khmelnytsky region; 391 in Cherkasy region; 3,083 in Chernivtsi region; and 131 in Chernihiv region.

Data from Russia-occupied areas – the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the city of Sevastopol, parts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions – is not available.

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COVID-19 tests were conducted by the Public Health Center's virological reference laboratory and regional laboratories.

A total of 623 (+6) COVID-19 deaths have already been recorded in the country. Some 7,234 (+126) patients have recovered.

As UNIAN reported earlier, there were 20,986 laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Ukraine as of the morning of May 24, including 617 COVID-19 deaths and 7,108 recoveries. Some 406 new cases were recorded in the past 24 hours.