Highest incidence of coronavirus cases recorded in Kyiv city and Cherkasy region

In particular, the incidence rate of COVID-19 in the past 14 days in Kyiv city amounted to 727.8 per 100,000 people, in Cherkasy region - 703.1.

The high incidence rate of COVID-19 in the past 14 days was also recorded in Zaporizhzhia region – 654.4 per 100,000 people, Chernihiv region – 616.7, Kyiv region – 570.9, Odesa region – 540.6, and Sumy region – 477.6.

An average incidence rate across Ukraine is 410.9 per 100,000 people.

The bed occupancy rate at COVID-19 designated hospitals across the country in the past five days amounted to 41.6% as of December 17. In Kyiv city, this figure amounted to 49.9%.

The high level of bed occupancy rate was recorded in Mykolaiv region (65.4%) and Odesa region (54%).

As reported by Ukrinform, a total of 944,381 COVID-19 cases were laboratory confirmed in Ukraine on December 18, including 12,630 new cases reported in the past 24 hours.

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