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Ukraine reports new daily high coronavirus cases, deaths: minister

FILE PHOTO: Spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kyiv
FILE PHOTO: Spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Kyiv

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine registered a record of 13,357 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, health minister Maksym Stepanov said on Thursday, up from a previous record of 12,524 cases reported last week.

He said the number of coronavirus related deaths had also hit a new high of 257 compared with the previous record of 256 deaths.

The total number of COVID cases climbed to 583,510 with 10,369 deaths.

(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)