COVID-19: Transcarpathia and Ukraine

"During the past day, May 5, 359 people sought emergency medical care,  of them had symptoms of acute pneumonia, 7 were suspected of having COVID-19" – the director of the Health Department of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration Yelizaveta Birov said.

169 samples of biological materials for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing were collected. 26 persons were diagnosed with COVID-19, 2 of them are medical workers. Overall, as of 9:00 am on May 6, 2020, 572 patients have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Of those, 144 are health care workers and 23 are children. 3479 polymerase chain reaction tests have been carried out.

One fatal case among patients diagnosed with COVID-19 has been reported in the past 24 hours. 73 people have recovered 

According to the Public Health Center, as of 9:00 am on May 6, there have been 13184 laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ukraine, of which 327 were fatal, 2097 patients have recovered. During the day, 487 new cases were confirmed. Currently, coronavirus disease has been detected in:  
Vinnytsia region – 472 cases; Volyn region – 359 cases; Dnipropetrovsk region – 568 cases; Donetsk region – 85 cases; Zhytomyr region – 456 cases; Transcarpathian region – 572 cases; Zaporizhzhya region – 298 cases; Ivano-Frankivsk region – 1037 cases; Kirovohrad region – 402 cases; Kyiv – 1651 cases; Kyiv region – 891 cases; Lviv region – 553 cases; Luhansk region – 42 cases; Mykolayiv region – 165 cases; Odesa region – 505 cases; Poltava region – 232 cases; Rivne region – 787 cases; Sumy region – 130 cases; Ternopil region – 935 cases; Kharkiv region – 403 cases; Kherson region – 143 cases; Khmelnytsky region – 134 cases; Chernivtsi region – 1985 cases; Cherkasy region – 314 cases;Chernihiv region – 65 cases. 
The tests were conducted by the Virology Reference Laboratory of the Public Health Center of Ukraine, as well as by regional laboratories. As of the morning of May 6, 2020, the Center has received 1411 reports of suspected COVID-19 cases.  
MOH reminds: Be sure to call your family doctor if you notice the first symptoms of a respiratory disease. Stay at home! Self-isolation is the surest way to protect yourself from infection