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Some 848 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 were reported in Ukraine in the past day, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 56,455 as of the morning of July 16.

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The death toll in Ukraine now is 1,445 people, including 18 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 28,931 patients, including 800 in the past day, have already recovered.

The overall incidence per region is the following:

7,622 in Lviv region;

6,613 in the city of Kyiv;

5,232 in Chernivtsi region;

4,852 in Rivne region;

4,166 in Zakarpattia region;

3,242 in Ivano-Frankivsk region;

3,147 in Volyn region;

3,144 in Kyiv region;

2,845 in Kharkiv region;

2,375 in Odesa region;

2,337 in Ternopil region;

2,221 cases in Vinnytsia region;

1,569 in Zhytomyr region;

1,163 in Dnipropetrovsk region;

930 in Khmelnytsky region;

675 in Kirovohrad region;

783 in Cherkasy region;

776 in Donetsk region (Ukrainian-controlled districts);

642 in Zaporizhia region;

628 in Chernihiv region;

498 in Mykolayiv region;

348 in Sumy region;

343 in Poltava region;

206 in Kherson region;

98 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 840,332 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests have been conducted.

As UNIAN reported earlier, 836 new cases of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 were reported in Ukraine as of the morning of July 15.