Donetsk, Jul 9 - DAN. Twenty-nine new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours, the DPR Healthcare Ministry reported on Thursday.

“Over the past 24 hours, DPR medics diagnosed 29 new COVID-19 cases,” the report said. “Twenty-four patients have recovered since Wednesday.”

The first COVID-19 case in the DPR was diagnosed on March 31. Latest reports said that the DPR currently has 1,319 confirmed COVID-19 cases; 594 patients have convalesced, 647 are receiving treatment and 78 have died.*jk