12,047 new cases of coronavirus infection have been registered in Ukraine over the last 24 hours. This was announced by Health Minister Maksym Stepanov on his Facebook page.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 931,751 cases of Covid-19 have been registered in Ukraine: 548,356 patients have recovered (+12,939 per day), 15,996 people (+252 per day) have died from complications caused by the disease.
The largest number of confirmed cases was registered in the city of Kyiv (1,512), Odesa (1,064), Zaporizhia (858), Kyiv (626), and Chernihiv (587) regions.
As we reported earlier, the Ministry of Health expects to carry out the first vaccinations against Covid-19 in February 2021.
"Now we are working with the manufacturers of vaccines - these are all manufacturers that are currently undergoing the stages of certification of their vaccines and have passed all clinical trials. We have all the proposals, we just finalize them," said Maksym Stepanov, Health Minister.
The head of the ministry did not bring any specific information on the manufacturers.