Ukraine has already recorded 3.616 million cases of coronavirus disease COVID-19, an increase of 6 thousand a day on December 20, more than doubling the rate of a day earlier.

Of those who have fallen ill in the past 24 hours: children - 390, health workers - 180. The number of those who have recovered is higher than the number of new cases. This is reported by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.

"During the day on December 20 in Ukraine recorded 6,029 new confirmed cases of coronavirus disease COVID-19," - said in the message.

Also over the past 24 hours:

- hospitalized - 1,061 persons;

- fatal cases - 346;

- 18,850 people recovered.

During the entire pandemic in Ukraine:

- fell ill - 3,616,716 people;

- 3,357,405 people recovered;

-93 608 fatal cases;

- 16,532,593 PCR tests were conducted.

During the last day, the largest number of confirmed cases was registered in Kiev city (1496), Poltava (602), Donetsk (413), Zaporozhye (344) and Zakarpattia (282) regions.