Ukrainian Health Minister Maksym Stepanov has listed the regions that are in the lead by the number of new COVID-19 cases confirmed in the past day.
"Speaking per each region, the highest number of confirmed cases in the past 24 hours was registered in the city of Kyiv (244 cases), Lviv region (186), Ternopil region (165), Chernivtsi region (163), and Ivano-Frankivsk region (161)," he said at a briefing on September 7, as reported by the Health Ministry on Facebook.
Read alsoUkraine's Cabinet not planning to introduce second COVID-19 lockdown – PM ShmyhalIn total, 19,006 tests were conducted in the country in the past day. In particular, there were 15,224 tests done with the use of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method and 3,782 with the application of the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method.
Background
- Ukraine said 2,174 new active COVID-19 cases had been confirmed across the country in the past 24 hours as of September 7, 2020.
- The total number of confirmed cases grew to 138,068.
