Over the last 24 hours, Ukrainian doctors confirmed 2,516 new cases of Covid-19, including 95 children and 87 healthcare workers. Coronavirus_Info Telegram channel reports it.
1,166 people have been taken to hospitals during this period; 63 patients deceased, and 5,783 recovered. 13,962 tests have been taken.
Most of the confirmed cases have been observed in Zaporizhzhia (241), Ivano-Frankivsk (238), Odesa (166), Chernivtsi (160) regions and Kyiv city(146).
1,194,328 people have got sick since the pandemic began in Ukraine, 953,297 recovered.
As we reported earlier, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said his UN agency's COVAX scheme had reached a deal with vaccine maker Pfizer-BioNTech for 40 million doses for poorer countries.
Another 150 million doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine will come in the first quarter of 2021 under COVAX — assuming WHO safety clearance, said Seth Berkley, chief executive of the private-public vaccination fund GAVI.
Addressing a press conference in Geneva, UN agency head Tedros added that fresh US "commitment" under new President Joe Biden to join COVAX meant "that we are closer to fulfilling" the scheme's promise.
