Late Saturday, Ukrainian Health Minister Maksym Stepanov revealed that he has tested positive for COVID-19, shortly after announcing that his country had reported a record number of new cases in a single day, according to Reuters.
In televised remarks, Stepanov said, “This is a war, every day the virus takes the lives of Ukrainians,” adding that 12,524 new cases had been registered in the previous 24 hours, up from the record of 11,787 a day earlier.
It is worth mentioning that, Ukraine has registered 525,176 coronavirus cases, including 9,508 deaths so far.
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