Donetsk, Jan 28 - DAN. More than 300 new COVID-19 cases have been diagnosed in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours, the DPR Healthcare Ministry reported on Thursday.

“DPR medics carried out 818 tests on January 27; 251 people tested positive and another 54 showed clinical and epidemiological signs of COVID-19,” the report said. Seventy-eight people have been discharged from hospitals and 21 patients have died since Wednesday, the report said.

The DPR currently has 19,995 confirmed COVID-19 cases, 7,561 people continue in- or outpatient treatment, 10,617 have recovered and 1,763 have died, according to the latest reports.*jk