More than 5,000 coronavirus patients hospitalized in Ukraine April 3

The largest number of new cases was reported in Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Khmelnytsky, and Lviv regions.

On April 3, Ukraine health authorities recorded 13,738 new COVID-19 cases and 258 fatalities caused by the coronavirus.

Also, 5,545 people were hospitalized, while 4,657 patients recovered, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov says.

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Over the past day, medics ran 75,538 COVID tests.

The largest number of confirmed coronavirus cases was registered in Kharkiv (1,388), Dnipropetrovsk (1,143), Odesa (1,075), Khmelnytsky (1,060), and Lviv (865) regions.

Since the onset of the pandemic, 1,745,709 people have contracted COVID-19 in Ukraine, of whom 34,333 succumbed to the novel coronavirus.

At the same time, 1,347,193 patients recovered.

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