Donetsk, Sep 21 – DAN. Six hundred and 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 Tuesday.

“DPR medics carried out 1,364 tests on September 20; 532 people tested positive and another 77 showed COVID-96 symptoms,” the report said.

DPR medics have confirmed 62,752 COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the coronavirus infection outbreak; 49, 776 people have recovered, 8,362 continue treatment and 4,614 have died.*jk