Donetsk, Jul 14 - DAN. Thirty-six 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.

The new cases are people who previously had contacts with the infected. Their condition is satisfactory, the Ministry said.

As of Tuesday morning, the Republic had 1,398 confirmed COVID-19 cases; 621 people have recovered and 82 have died.

As many as 54,771 people in Ukraine have tested positive for coronavirus infection since the beginning of the pandemic and 1,412 have died. Over the past 24 hours, Ukraine has reported 638 new COVID-19 cases.*jk