One COVID-19 patient dies in LPR over 24 hours - Health Ministry

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LUGANSK, January 22 (Lugansk Media Centre) - Lugansk People’s Republic’s medics have recorded one death due to COVID-19 since Thursday, the LPR Healthcare Ministry press service reported.

“One death has been recorded which brings the LPR coronavirus infection death toll to 210,” the report said.

The World Health Organisation called the COVID-19 coronavirus infection a pandemic. The first coronavirus infection cases were recorded in China in late 2019.  As of now, the number of coronavirus contacts across the world has exceeded 95.2 million; of those, over two million people have died. Earlier, the LPR confirmed 2,473 COVID-19 cases.

To prevent the spread of the coronavirus infection, the LPR authorities put the Republic on high alert and introduced lockdown measures.