Donetsk, Jul 17 – DAN. DPR has registered 33 new cases of COVID-19 as the total number of confirmed cases raises to 1,477, the Ministry of Health said.

“The Ministry of Health reports that tests revealed 33 cases of COVID-19 in the DPR on July 16.”

Five of new patients arrived from Ukraine on July 7 and 13.

Within the past 24 hours, 12 people recovered and tested negative twice.

Overall, 87 patients have died, 687 have recovered, 703 are being treated.

On March 14, the DPR went on high alert in connection with the threat of the coronavirus infection spread.

As of July 16, 809 new cases were reported in Ukraine bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases to 57,264, of those 1,456 died.*ot*pp