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Some 876 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 were reported in Ukraine in the past day, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 46,763 as of the morning of July 3.

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The death toll in Ukraine now is 1,212 people, including 27 who died in the past 24 hours, according to the interactive map of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council.

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As many as 20,558 patients, including 505 in the past day, have already recovered.

The number of active COVID-19 cases as of the morning of July 3 was 24,993.

The overall incidence per region is the following:

5,883 in Lviv region;

5,347 in the city of Kyiv;

4,935 in Chernivtsi region;

3,950 in Rivne region;

3,126 in Zakarpattia region;

2,702 in Kyiv region;

2,571 in Volyn region;

2,544 in Ivano-Frankivsk region;

2,255 in Kharkiv region;

1,990 in Ternopil region;

1,915 cases in Vinnytsia region;

1,792 in Odesa region;

1,435 in Zhytomyr region;

1,103 in Dnipropetrovsk region;

822 in Khmelnytsky region;

653 in Kirovohrad region;

653 in Cherkasy region;

599 in Donetsk region (Ukrainian-controlled districts);

579 in Zaporizhia region;

554 in Chernihiv region;

450 in Mykolayiv region;

322 in Poltava region;

304 in Sumy region;

195 in Kherson region;

84 in Luhansk region (Ukrainian-controlled districts).

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

A total of 690,953 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests have been conducted.

COVID-19 tests were conducted by the Public Health Center's virological reference laboratory and regional laboratories. As of the morning of July 3, 2020, the Center had received 1,249 reports of suspected cases. In total, there have been 92,421 reports on suspected COVID-19 since the beginning of 2020.