On December 9, 289 cases of the novel coronavirus were documented SIMFEROPOL, December 10. /TASS/. Crimea has documented 289 cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, whish is the highest figure since the start of the pandemic, head of the republic Sergei Aksyonov informed on his VK page on Thursday. Crimea has documented record-high daily COVID-19 numbers for six days running. Read also "On December 9, 289 cases of the novel coronavirus have been documented on the territory of the Republic of Crimea, including 17 asymptomatic cases," he informed. The head of Crimea added that 413 people have recovered from the disease in the past 24 hours, and 13,913 have recovered in total. Since the start of the pandemic, over 18,000 cases of COVID-19 have been documented in the region.