Donetsk, Feb 11 – DAN. Donetsk People’s Republic medics have diagnosed 1,540 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, the DPR Healthcare Ministry reported on Friday.

“DPR medics carried out 4,325 tests on February 10; 1,469 people tested positive and another 71 showed COVID-19 symptoms,” the report said. Two hundred and forty-nine patients were de-registered after recovery and four died in the designated period.

In the previous reporting period, medics recorded 2,046 new COVID-19 cases.

The DPR has recorded 138,789 coronavirus infection cases since the beginning of the pandemic; 111,297 people have recovered, 17,897 continue treatment, and 9,595 have died. *jk