The first patient with the Delta strain died at the Oleksandrivska hospital in Kyiv, Kyiv TV channel reports, citing director of the medical institution Liudmyla Antonenko.
According to the report, four of the six patients at the Oleksandrivska hospital in the capital, who were diagnosed with the strain, have recently returned from Russia.
The strain in patients was confirmed by a laboratory.
Earlier, four cases of the Delta strain were also confirmed in Ukraine.
