As of 9:30 on March 16, five cases of Covid-19 coronavirus were confirmed in Ukraine.
The Center for Public Health of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine reported this on its Facebook page.
"According to the laboratory tests conducted at the virology-reference laboratory of the Public Health Center, five cases of Covid-19 were confirmed, namely four cases in Chernivtsi region and one case in Zhytomyr region," the report says.
Since the beginning of the year, the Public Health Center has received 94 reports of suspected cases of Covid-19.
In total, the virology-reference laboratory of the Public Health Center examined more than 500 samples.
