Donetsk, Feb 2 - DAN. One hundred and seventy-one new COVID-19 cases have been diagnosed in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours, the DPR Healthcare Ministry reported on Tuesday.

“DPR medics carried out 505 tests on February 1; 141 people tested positive and another 30 showed clinical and epidemiological signs of COVID-19,” the report said. One hundred and twenty-three patients have recovered and two people have died since Monday.

The DPR currently has 20,597 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 10,909 patients have recovered, 7,884 people continue in- or outpatient treatment and 1,804 have died, according to the latest reports.*jk