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November 1: Ukraine (UA): Situation update
source: non-english – Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has introduced a decision of the Council of National Security and Defense Council on October 30 “On urgent measures to ensure national security in an outbreak of pandemic influenza in Ukraine.”

As UNIAN reported in the main office of information policy of the Presidential Secretariat, the solution put in place the relevant presidential decree.

In the NSDC decision indicates that the epidemic situation has gained an extremely threatening and unpredictable in nature and poses a threat to national security of Ukraine, the epidemic began in Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv regions during the period 10-12 October. The services of the Ministry of Health delayed reaction to the obvious trends and threats have failed to take necessary preventive measures to reduce threats to life and health. Real assessment of the situation was given only 27-28 October, but the appropriate response measures were not adopted.

Given the lack of willingness of the central and local executive authorities, said the NSDC, to take concerted decisions and inadequate funding of relevant activities, we can predict the further complication of the epidemiological situation, if not taken immediate effective action.

Health Ministry and local executive authorities have demonstrated a lack of willingness to treat patients. At present there is no sufficient medicines and protective equipment, causing panic among residents of the victims of areas.

November 1: Ukraine (UA): 60 deaths confirmed
source: non-english – The Ministry of Health in the Ukraine reported that the death toll is now 60, as of 17:00.

November 1: Ukraine (UA): Normal life has stopped
source: non-english – The raging virus has paralyzed life in Ukraine. People have stopped contact with family and friends. They talk with relatives and friends only by phone. All now are afraid to even catch an ordinary cold.

As more and more of their relatives at home sees signs of a deadly plague. Florczukowie complain that they can not get any drugs, because everything you purchased at a pharmacy. Therefore cure homemade ways: at the moment łykają vitamin C, drink hot milk with honey and garlic.

The latest figures are striking. In Ukraine 185 thousand already sick people. Not only Ukraine is faced with a sudden wave of cases of influenza. Belarus on acute respiratory infections and flu-sick 65 thousand people and nearly a thousand in the hospitals.

The worst is in the neighboring Polish Lviv. There is suffering more than 69 thousand people, including almost 26 thousand children! In Lviv, the streets are deserted. On the usually crowded square in front of the opera in the heart of the city there is no one.

There are no customers in bars, restaurants, shops. Even in a nearby symbol of democracy – McDonald’s, where the queues are usually huge. A few passers-by go quickly to their homes. Most of them have their faces covered with masks.

60 people have already died in Ukraine. Ministry of Health requests silence
MIGnews.com.ua

According to the latest data of Ministry of Health, as of 05:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 1, the number of people who are ill with influenza and acute respiratory disease in Ukraine, have increased to 191,000 people, 83,000 out of them are children under 18 years.

More than 7,000 people have been hospitalized. Out of them 123 people are in intensive care department. As a result of the epidemic, 60 people died in the Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Lviv and Volyn Regions. In the Volyn region, in particular,the first fatal case has been recorded. The greatest number of deaths is in the Lviv Region - 29 people.
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Ukraine Requests Closing Of Crossing Points On Romanian Border Over Flu Epidemic

Authorities in the Ukrainian region of Chernivtsi have requested several crossing points on the borders with Romania and the Republic of Moldova be closed, because of the risk of spread of the flu epidemic, according to news agency Omega.
"We have already petitioned the border guard service and requested the closing of crossing points on the border with the Republic of Moldova and Romania, in places where a medical examination cannot be performed," Chernivitsi Oblast governor Volodymyr Kulish said.
Moldova Border Guard Service spokesman Dumitru Osoianu said the crossing points between Moldova and Ukraine have not been closed, but are running normally. According to Osoianu, medical examinations are performed at every location.
According to the Ukrainian News Agency, Ukrainian authorities have confirmed 60 fatalities because of flu and breathing infections in the Oblasts of Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Lviv and Volyn.
Most deaths occurred in the Lvov Oblast, where 29 people died.
http://www.mediafax.ro/english/ukraine- ... ic-5074176

Death toll from the flu - 67 people
Newspaper in Kiev, 02.11.2009
The death toll from the flu epidemic in Ukraine has reached 67 people. This at a press conference, said deputy Minister of Health Mr. Lazoryshynets. In particular, 29 people died in the Lviv region, 14 - in Ternopil, 12 - Ivano-Frankivsk, 5 - Chernivtsi. First Deputy Minister added that all the deaths "are similar. According to preliminary information, its primary cause was influenza virus A (H1N1), but research is still ongoing.
In general, he said, in Ukraine 250 thousand people suffering from SARS and avian influenza, of which 15 thousand are hospitalized, 17 (people) - in intensive care.
http://www.rbc.ua/rus/digests/show/pogi ... ek02112009
Translated by Google

The World Health Organization said Monday there was no evidence that Ukraine had a bad outbreak of swine flu but at the government's request it had sent a health team there to help the country cope.

"But this is not an indication that the situation is severe," said WHO spokeswoman Liuba Negru. "The information we have gotten (from the government), we have to double-check it and make sure it is real, evidence-based information."