Another spike in COVID-19 incidence rate in Ukraine, including Transcarpathia (MAP)

"During the past day, April 23, 392 people sought emergency medical care, 12 of them had symptoms of acute pneumonia, 13 were suspected of having COVID-19" – the director of the Health Department of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration Yelizaveta Birov said.

165 samples of biological materials for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing were collected. 30 persons were diagnosed with COVID-19, 4 of them are medical workers. 12 people with signs of acute respiratory infection and 12 persons suspected of having COVID-19, including 5 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 were hospitalized in health care institutions over the past day. Overall, as of 9:00 am on April 24, 2020, 260 patients have been diagnosed with COVID-19. Of those, 57 are health care workers and 13 are children. 1581 polymerase chain reaction tests have been carried out.

30 persons have recovered.

According to the Public Health Center, as of 9:00 am on April 24, there have been 7647 laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ukraine, of which 193 were fatal, 601 patients have recovered. During the day, 477 new cases were confirmed. Currently, coronavirus disease has been detected in:  
Vinnytsia region – 370 cases; 
Volyn region – 203 cases; 
Dnipropetrovsk region – 195 cases; 
Donetsk region – 24 cases; 
Zhytomyr region – 309 cases; 
Transcarpathian region – 260 cases; 
Zaporizhzhya region – 163 cases; 
Ivano-Frankivsk region – 684 cases; 
Kirovohrad region – 283 cases; 
Kyiv – 1122 cases; 
Kyiv region – 505 cases; 
Lviv region – 298 cases; 
Lughnsk region – 27 cases; 
Mykolaiv region – 103 cases; 
Odesa region – 169 cases; 
Poltava region – 161 cases; 
Rivne region – 437 cases; 
Sumy region – 90 cases; 
Ternopil region – 532 cases; 
Kharkiv region – 118 cases; 
Kherson region – 77 cases; 
Khmelnytsky region – 65 cases; 
Chernivtsi region – 1199 cases; 
Cherkasy region – 234 cases; 
Chernihiv region – 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