Ukraine has recorded 807 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours as of 9 a.m. on July 8. At the moment, there are 25,989 active cases in the country.
During this period, 23 patients have died, 200 have been hospitalized and 926 have recovered — a record daily number of recoveries since the start of the pandemic, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said at his morning briefing on July 8. The total number of infections in Ukraine now stands at 50,414, while a total of 23,119 patients have recovered and 1,306 have died of the disease.
Among all cases, 3,569 (or 7.2%) are children, and 7,092 (14.2%) are medical workers.
The largest numbers of new cases were registered in Lviv Oblast (117), the city of Kyiv (114), and Rivne Oblast (76).
Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from May 1 to July 7, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health.
In the past 24 hours, Ukrainian laboratories carried out 13,568 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 14,016 antibody tests (ELISA).
Stepanov said that Ukraine is in talks with Gilead, a U.S. biopharmaceutical company, over deliveries of remdesivir, an anti-Ebola drug which was found to be effective in severe cases of COVID-19 and became the first medication against COVID-19 approved for licensing in the U.S. and recommended for authorization in the EU. U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has bought almost all of the stock of the drug for the next three months.
Stepanov said that Ukraine is counting on buying enough doses to treat 8,000 patients.
Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between May 1 and July 7, 2020.
