The World Health Organization recorded almost 300 thousand new coronavirus infections on August 15, which is a record daily increase since the beginning of the pandemic.

Over the past day in Ukraine, 1637 cases of coronavirus disease COVID-19 were detected. This is 210 fewer cases than the day before.. During the same period, 24 patients died (the day before - 33), 392 people recovered (633).

Over the past day, the most cases of COVID-19 coronavirus disease were detected in Kharkiv (228 cases), Chernivtsi (183), Ivano-Frankivsk (158) regions, as well as in Kiev (146). Not a single new patient was in the Luhansk region.

During the day, 33 new cases of Covid-19 were registered in the Ukrainian Armed Forces *** In general, about 34 thousand beds for patients with COVID-19 were allocated in Ukraine, 3.7 thousand ventilators were prepared. Also, the Ministry of Health significantly increased the number of beds with supplied oxygen (there are now more than 9.5 thousand of them) and increased the number of tests by almost 100 times..

*** Office of the President of Ukraine released a statement on the situation in Belarus.

In particular, the statement notes that the official Minsk, unfortunately, has already demonstrated, irresponsibly releasing the "

*** The Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) with the support of the delegations of Great Britain, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania signed the " \; we call on the Belarusian authorities to immediately release all illegally detained participants in peaceful assemblies, "

*** National strike announced in Belarus.

*** Aisultan Nazarbayev, grandson of ex-President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, died in London.