Donetsk, Jun 30 - DAN. Seventeen new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours, the DPR Healthcare Ministry reported on Tuesday.

“Over the past 24 hours, DPR medics diagnosed 17 new COVID-19 cases,” the report said. “Eleven people have recovered from the coronavirus infection since Monday.”

The first COVID-19 case in the DPR was diagnosed on March 31. Latest reports said that the DPR currently has 1,136 confirmed COVID-19 patients; 341 have convalesced, 724 are receiving treatment and 71 have died.*jk