An employee of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has died of the COVID-19 acute respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus at Lviv Regional Infectious Disease Hospital, the press service of the medical forces command has reported.

"The second lethal coronavirus case has been recorded in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. An employee of the Ukrainian Armed Forces died of the COVID-19 acute respiratory disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the intensive care unit of the Lviv Regional Infectious Disease Hospital today," the report reads.

According to reports, the man, in addition to coronavirus, had comorbidities.

The medical forces command extended condolences to the friends and relatives of the deceased.

According to the Public Health Center of the Ukrainian Health Ministry, 4,161 laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases have been recorded in Ukraine as of 09:00 on Thursday, April 16. A total of 116 patients died of the disease, and 186 recovered. Some 397 new cases have been recorded in Ukraine over the past 24 hours.

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