Ukraine posts record jump in daily new coronavirus cases

FILE PHOTO: Restaurant workers protest against the strengthening measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by introducing a lockdown at weekends, outside the government headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine November 11, 2020. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File photo

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine registered a record 12,524 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, its health minister said on Saturday, up from a high of 11,787 reported on Nov. 13.

Maksym Stepanov said the new cases had taken the total confirmed infections to 525,176, with 9,508 deaths.

Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Editing by Kim Coghill

source: reuters.com