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Ukraine has registered 2,551 new COVID-19 cases as of 9 a.m. on Sept. 9. Currently, there are 75,348 active cases across the country.

In the past 24 hours, 45 people have died, 389 were hospitalized and 1,157 patients have recovered. Over 3,000 people are suspected of having COVID-19.

Laboratories carried out 20,054 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 24,098 antibody tests.

The highest numbers of new cases were recorded in Kyiv city (310), Kharkiv Oblast (291), Ternopil Oblast (244), Lviv Oblast (196), Ivano-Frankivsk (151) and Chernivtsi Oblast (150).

According to the Health Ministry’s latest data, the number of infections per 100,000 people of the population remains below 40 — the threshold set by the ministry — in only seven out of 25 regions over the past 14 days. Ternopil Oblast has 256 cases per 100,000 people,  Chernivtsi Oblast has 229, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast—172,  Kharkiv Oblast—128, Kyiv —113, Odesa and Lviv Oblasts—107.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic stands at 143,030. A total of 64,703 patients have recovered and 2,979 have died.

Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Aug. 1 to Sept. 8, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health.

Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Aug. 1 and Sept. 8, 2020.

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