Almost 1,200 new COVID-19 cases confirmed in Ukraine in past day / Photo from UNIAN

Some 1,197 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 were reported in Ukraine in the past day, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 68,794 as of the morning of July 30.

The death toll in Ukraine now is 1,673 people, including 23 who died in the past 24 hours, according to the interactive map of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council.

As many as 38,154 patients, including 760 in the past day, have already recovered.

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The overall incidence per region is the following:

2,698 cases in Vinnytsia region;

3,735 in Volyn region;

1,394 in Dnipropetrovsk region;

865 in Donetsk region (Ukrainian-controlled districts);

1,807 in Zhytomyr region;

5,078 in Zakarpattia region;

779 in Zaporizhia region;

4,446 in Ivano-Frankivsk region;

702 in Kirovohrad region;

8,131 in the city of Kyiv;

3,672 in Kyiv region;

9,379 in Lviv region;

122 in Luhansk region (Ukrainian-controlled districts);

578 in Mykolayiv region;

3,150 in Odesa region;

431 in Poltava region;

5,942 in Rivne region;

484 in Sumy region;

2,922 in Ternopil region;

3,626 in Kharkiv region;

224 in Kherson region;

1,109 in Khmelnytsky region;

5,812 in Chernivtsi region;

919 in Cherkasy region;

789 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.

COVID-19 tests were conducted by the Public Health Center's virological reference laboratory and regional laboratories. As of the morning of July 30, 2020, the Center had received 1,541 reports of suspected cases. In total, there have been 120,972 reports on suspected COVID-19 since the beginning of 2020.