Donetsk, Jul 29 – DAN. DPR has registered 41 new cases of COVID-19 as the total number of confirmed cases raises to 1,710, the Ministry of Health said.

“The Ministry of Health reports that tests revealed 41 cases of COVID-19 in the DPR on July 28.”

Sixteen of the patients arrived from Ukraine on July 17 and 20.

Within the past 24 hours, 17 people recovered and tested negative twice.

Overall, 99 patients have died, 792 have recovered.

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

As of July 29, 1,022 new cases were reported in Ukraine in 24 hours bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases to 67,597, of those 1,650 died.*ot*pp