A 33-year-old woman has died of coronavirus in Ukraine, with 6 more infections confirmed

There are now 14 official cases of the disease in the country.

Ukraine's Health Ministry reported in a Telegram channel that 7 new coronavirus infections have been recorded in the country, including one fatal case: a 33-year-old woman from Chernivtsi region.

“As of 20:00 on March 17, 14 cases of Covid-19 have been laboratory-confirmed in Ukraine, 2 of them fatal. Based on the results of the virological reference laboratory of the Public Health Center of Ukraine, 14 positive Covid-19 results were obtained: Chernivtsi (10), Zhytomyr (1), Kyiv (1) regions and Kyiv city (2),” the ministry reported.

The ministry reported the new cases detected today as follows:

• Kyiv region — a 44-year-old man who had been abroad
• Chernivtsi region — a 33-year-old woman (fatal), people aged 31, 10 and 18, as well as two children aged one year and nine months and six months (all are contacts of a previously confirmed case)

Data from Italy as of March 16 show which age groups are most susceptible to coronavirus infection (the first column shows age groups, the second the distribution of deaths by age group, and the third the mortality rate).

According to this information, there are no deaths among those under 30. People aged 30–39 account for only 0.2% of deaths. The largest share of deaths, 88.1%, falls on those over 70. It turns out that the 33-year-old Ukrainian woman was not in a risk group based on global practice. However, this case of infection ended fatally.

Previously, 7 cases of Covid-19 infection in Ukraine had been officially reported: 4 in Chernivtsi region, 2 in Kyiv and 1 fatal case in Zhytomyr region.