KYIV, Oct 21 – A record 6,719 coronavirus cases, a record number of deaths, 141, and 2,686 recoveries were registered in Ukraine as of Wednesday morning, according to information on the website of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) coronavirus epidemic monitoring system.

The day before, 5,469 new coronavirus cases were registered. A total of 3,044 had recovered over the past 24 hours and 113 people who had fallen ill earlier died. The latter two indicators were the maximums since the start of the pandemic. It was reported on 4,766 new cases on October 19, 5,231 new cases on October 18, and a record 6,410 new cases of COVID-19 were registered on October 17.