This was announced by the occupation "chairman" Sergey Aksyonov on his Facebook page.

It is noted that 29 of them were found when seeking medical help, 34 - among contacts in previously registered cases, 17 - when screening a healthy population, 1 case - from Ukraine.

According to the occupation government of Sevastopol, as of the morning of September 24, 23 new cases of COVID-19 were detected in the city. Patients are people aged 13 to 92, including 21 locals and two imported cases. Another 15 people were discharged after recovery.

What is known

• A total of 4,553 COVID-19 cases have been officially registered in occupied Crimea for the current period. Of these, 97 cases - from abroad, 124 imported from Russia and detected in contact with them, 3,156 cases were detected in seeking medical care and in contact with persons with laboratory-confirmed results, 676 - in laboratory screening of healthy individuals. 2,561 people recovered during the whole period, 51 died, according to the occupation Ministry of Health of Crimea on September 22.
• A total of 888 people have fallen ill with coronavirus in occupied Sevastopol since the beginning of the year.
• At the moment there are 234 people in hospitals. Recovered - 583, died - 25.