Ukraine president urges health awareness after record infections

FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians, including a man wearing a protective face mask amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), crosses a street in central Kyiv, Ukraine August 21, 2020. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged people to act on health advice on Saturday after official data showed daily COVID-19 infections had risen to a record level.

The country saw 2,328 cases of the new coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 37 deaths of people having tested positive for the virus, data from the national council of security and defence showed.