Health Ministry names regions with highest incidence of coronavirus cases

In particular, the incidence rate of COVID-19 in the past 14 days in Zaporizhzhia region amounted to 559.3 per 100,000 people, in Mykolaiv region – 503.1, in Cherkasy region – 485.1, in Kyiv region – 479.2, in Odesa region – 424.9, in Chernihiv region – 403.6, and the city of Kyiv – 499.1.

An average incidence rate across Ukraine is 323.7 per 100,000 people.

The bed occupancy rate at COVID-19 designated hospitals across the country in the past five days amounted to 36.3% as of December 30. In Kyiv city, this figure amounted to 44.1%.

The highest level of bed occupancy rate was recorded in Mykolaiv region (50.2%).

As reported by Ukrinform, a total of 1,055,047 coronavirus cases were recorded in Ukraine on December 31, including 9,699 new COVID-19 cases registered in the past 24 hours.

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