Ukraine confirms record daily high of 15,331 new coronavirus cases - health minister


FILE PHOTO: A medical worker assists a patient as he leaves an ambulance outside a hospital for patients infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kyiv, Ukraine November 24, 2020. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine registered a record 15,331 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, health minister Maksym Stepanov said on Thursday, up from a previous record of 14,580 reported on Nov. 21.

He said the total number of cases had climbed to 677,189, with 11,717 deaths.

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