Ukraine reports another record spike in COVID-19 cases on August 13 / Photo from UNIAN

Ukraine's authorities on Thursday, August 13, said the number of new active COVID-19 cases increased by 1,592 over the past 24 hours.

This marked a new high since the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, as evidenced by the NSDC map of COVID-19 spread.

As many as 46,216 patients, including 530 in the past day, have recovered.

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In total, 86,140 COVID-19 cases have already been detected in Ukraine.

The pandemic has taken 1,992 lives with 22 fatalities recorded over the past day.

In total, 1,233,925 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests have been run since the pandemic start.

Data from covid19.rnbo.gov.ua

As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine on August 12 reported 1,433 new COVID-19 cases.