Donetsk, Sep 16 – DAN. Five hundred and twenty-nine new COVID-19 cases have been diagnosed in the Donetsk People’s Republic over the past 24 hours, the DPR Healthcare Ministry reported on Thursday.

“DPR medics carried out 969 tests on September 15; 433 people tested positive and another 96 showed COVID-96 symptoms,” the report said.

DPR medics have confirmed 61,400 COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the coronavirus infection outbreak; 49, 251 people have recovered, 7,629 continue treatment and 4,520 have died.*jk