“Over the past day, 612 people fell ill, including 52 children and 68 medical workers,” the country's health minister, Maxim Stepanov, quotes TASS.

The total number of deaths in Ukraine has reached 1398.

It is also reported that a total of 26,503 patients with coronavirus have recovered from the start of the pandemic in the country.

Earlier, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that quarantine for coronavirus infection COVID-19, introduced earlier in the country, gave positive results.