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Ukraine has registered 4,420 new COVID-19 cases as of 9 a.m. on Oct. 12, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to 265,454.

In the past 24 hours, 43 people have died, 903 have recovered and 521 were hospitalized. A total of  114,410 patients have recovered and 5,015 have died since the beginning of the pandemic.

There are currently 146,029 active cases of COVID-19 across Ukraine.

Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Sept. 1 and Oct. 11, 2020.

In the past 24 hours, laboratories have carried out 19,867 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 2,039 antibody tests.

Ukraine expects to be conducting at least 50,000 PCR tests a day by the beginning of December, according to Health Minister Maksym Stepanov.

In the past 24 hours, the largest numbers of new cases have been recorded in Kharkiv Oblast (741), Sumy Oblast (418), Poltava Oblast (244), Khmelnytskyi Oblast (219) and the city of Kyiv (213).Officially, the maximum number of patients with COVID-19 who can be treated in Ukraine’s hospitals is 37,000.

Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Sept. 1 and Oct. 11, 2020.