Ukraine reports 260 new cases, total over 18,800

A total of 18,876 confirmed COVID-19 cases with 548 deaths were reported in Ukraine on Tuesday, while 5,632 patients have recovered, the country’s health ministry reported on its official website.

There are 1,348 children and 3,696 health workers diagnosed with COVID-19 since the beginning of the epidemic.

260 new patients tested positive for coronavirus in Ukraine over the past 24 hours.

A total of 5,978 coronavirus patients have been hospitalized since the beginning of the epidemic, including 671 health workers. Among them, 245 people were on ventilators, including one child and twenty-one medical workers.

The number of patients recovered from coronavirus exceeded or was equal to the number of new cases registered over the past 24 hours in 16 out of 24 regions of Ukraine, according to the website of the Coronavirus Epidemic Monitoring System of the National Security and Defense Council.

On May 4, the Ukrainian government extended its quarantine measures until May 22.

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Source: Xinhua