There is a slight exceeding in epidemic threshold in Kyiv due to a significant number of patients with acute respiratory diseases, told the director of the Center of influenza and acute respiratory diseases Oleksander Hrynevych.

As 1 +1 TV channel reports, in particular, Oleksander Hrynevych said: "The disease pattern like in the western regions is not a typical in Kyiv. The epidemic threshold is exceeded, but it is exceeded due to acute respiratory diseases”.

At the same time, the head of the Center believes that a state of the epidemic across the country should not be declared, "because there are regions where, compared to last week, decline in sickness rate is observed”.

According to Oleksander Hrynevych, owing to quarantine in some regions, there is decline in sickness rate. He pointed out that the situation with sickness rate is under control, urging citizens in time to see a doctor if symptoms of the disease are observed, reports Liga.

As a reminder, according to the Ministry of Health, 6357 people are ill with flu and acute respiratory diseases in Kyiv, 166 people were hospitalized. Fatalities have not been recorded.

The death toll from the flu epidemic in western Ukraine has reached 86 people. The total number of patients with influenza and acute respiratory disease across the country is over 255,000 people.

On November 3 Ministry of Health confirmed 80 cases of death from pneumonia. This is reported by the deputy chief sanitary doctor Lyudmila Mukharska in the air of the First national TV channel.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has ordered the Ministry of Health to pay doctors for overtime work in nine regions in which quarantine is imposed in connection with the epidemic of influenza.

The government is negotiating with India on the purchase of broad-spectrum antibiotics. This was reported by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday at the meeting.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko believes that the use of rapid tests for diagnosis of swine influenza inappropriate.

She also said that in 10 regions of Ukraine sickness rate is approaching epidemic threshold. "It is Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrivsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Luhansk, Odessa, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv", - Yulia Tymoshenko said.

Yulia Tymoshenko asks the Ministry of Health to begin the process of license annulment of pharmacies in which drugs are overpriced.

Yulia Tymoshenko asks Ukrainians not to take drugs of Tamiflu for preventing influenza, and the Ministry of Health - to bring this message to the public.

The State tax administration in the Rivne Region has established a telephone hotline to monitor prices for medications in pharmacies. Yesterday, on November 3 in Transcarpathian Region the number of patients with influenza and acute respiratory viral infections rose by 6,000 people. The major producer of pharmaceuticals company Lubnyfarm "(Poltava Region) on Tuesday renewed production of oxolinic ointment, told the head of the Poltava Regional Council Oleksandr Udovychenko.

In the Kyiv Region two people were hospitalized with suspicion on virus A (H1N1). Patients from Bohuslav and Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky were immediately hospitalized. Their tests are sent to a laboratory for confirmation of the diagnosis. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko gave instructions to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the chief state sanitary doctor Oleksandr Bilovol to send to the Kyiv Region additional 10,000 packages of the drug Tamiflu. The Kyiv City State Administration has allocated Hr 14,013 mn for the purchase of a minimum set of drugs for the prevention of influenza for low-income residents and health care providers who work with patients outside the hospital.

In Kyiv the first death from the swine influenza has been officially confirmed. The fact that the woman died yesterday, on November 3 and that the diagnosis Californian flu was confirmed was announced by the deputy head of Kyiv city state administration Irena Kilchytska at a conference call with the heads of regions to prevent the spread of infectious diseases under the leadership of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

At the same time, Irena Kilchytska asked the governor of the Cherkassy Region to provide complete information about a person who is hospitalized in Uman with suspicion on the Californian flu after a trip to the capital of Ukraine.

According to the Kyiv sanitary epidemiological station, on November 2, in the capital of Ukraine for the first time in recent weeks a positive result for influenza A/H1N1 was received in the rapid test in the study of material from the 17-year-old child. "This is the website of the Kyiv city sanitary-epidemiological service.

01:19 p.m. On November 3 Ministry of Health confirmed 80 cases of death from pneumonia. This is reported by the deputy chief sanitary doctor Lyudmila Mukharska in the air of the First national TV channel.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has ordered the Ministry of Health to pay doctors for overtime work in nine regions in which quarantine is imposed in connection with the epidemic of influenza.

The government is negotiating with India on the purchase of broad-spectrum antibiotics. This was reported by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Tuesday at the meeting.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko believes that the use of rapid tests for diagnosis of swine influenza inappropriate.

She also said that in 10 regions of Ukraine sickness rate is approaching epidemic threshold. "It is Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrivsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kyiv, Luhansk, Odessa, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv", - Yulia Tymoshenko said.

Yulia Tymoshenko asks the Ministry of Health to begin the process of license annulment of pharmacies in which drugs are overpriced.

Yulia Tymoshenko asks Ukrainians not to take drugs of Tamiflu for preventing influenza, and the Ministry of Health - to bring this message to the public.

The State tax administration in the Rivne Region has established a telephone hotline to monitor prices for medications in pharmacies. Yesterday, on November 3 in Transcarpathian Region the number of patients with influenza and acute respiratory viral infections rose by 6,000 people. The major producer of pharmaceuticals company Lubnyfarm "(Poltava Region) on Tuesday renewed production of oxolinic ointment, told the head of the Poltava Regional Council Oleksandr Udovychenko.

In the Kyiv Region two people were hospitalized with suspicion on virus A (H1N1). Patients from Bohuslav and Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky were immediately hospitalized. Their tests are sent to a laboratory for confirmation of the diagnosis. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko gave instructions to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the chief state sanitary doctor Oleksandr Bilovol to send to the Kyiv Region additional 10,000 packages of the drug Tamiflu. The Kyiv City State Administration has allocated Hr 14,013 mn for the purchase of a minimum set of drugs for the prevention of influenza for low-income residents and health care providers who work with patients outside the hospital.

In Kyiv the first death from the swine influenza has been officially confirmed. The fact that the woman died yesterday, on November 3 and that the diagnosis Californian flu was confirmed was announced by the deputy head of Kyiv city state administration Irena Kilchytska at a conference call with the heads of regions to prevent the spread of infectious diseases under the leadership of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

At the same time, Irena Kilchytska asked the governor of the Cherkassy Region to provide complete information about a person who is hospitalized in Uman with suspicion on the Californian flu after a trip to the capital of Ukraine.

According to the Kyiv sanitary epidemiological station, on November 2, in the capital of Ukraine for the first time in recent weeks a positive result for influenza A/H1N1 was received in the rapid test in the study of material from the 17-year-old child. "This is the website of the Kyiv city sanitary-epidemiological service.

05:54 p.m. Within a week - ten days the number of cases of swine influenza is expected to be in Ukraine. It was said by Secretary of National Security and Defense Council Raisa Bohatyryova.

In Uman (Cherkassy Region) a person with a suspicion on Californian flu is found.

In the next few days in Kyiv the first 20 tents will appear, which can test people for influenza. With the support of the charity fund Eurolab a social movement "Kyivers against influenza" has been organized in Kyiv, was reported at a press conference by the chairman of the charity fund Eurolab Andriy Palchevsky.

According to him, tomorrow the first 20 tents will be set in the crowd places, such as underground stations, supermarkets and other locations, where teams of specialists will work. They will handle their hands with special antiseptics to prevent them, measure temperature, and test people to identify as influenza in general, and its variants - Group "A" or "B". For this purpose special test systems, issuing a diagnosis in 10 minutes have been bought out. There is an opportunity to make 10,000 tests.

Also Kyivers can get disposable medical masks, reports Obkom. "We will help people of Kyiv for free", - emphasized the head of the Fund.

FC "Dynamo" (Kyiv) intends to give everybody who comes on November 4 at the Valery Lobanovsky stadium in Kyiv at the third tour of the match group stage of UEFA Champions League with Italy's Inter (Milan) fans of protective masks, president of FC Dynamo Igor Surkis said in an interview with the newspaper Sovetsky sport.

President Viktor Yushchenko will control compliance with anti-epidemic measures, deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat of Ukraine Petro Shatkovskiy.

06:28 p.m. Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko ordered the State Reserve to purchase additional 11 mn running meters of gauze. She gave such instruction today during a telephone conference. According to the head of the government, the State Reserve is to store 2 masks per person.

Yulia Tymoshenko stressed that the masks will be issued to people for free, reports RBC-Ukraine. She urged the leaders of the regional state administrations to get gauze in the State Reserve, and to organize sewing of masks.

The World Health Organization strongly recommends the use of antiviral drugs oseltamivir or zanamivir (this is the name of active substances which are sold under the brand name Tamiflu and Relenza) for patients who meet the criteria for signs of flu, even in the absence of positive laboratory test for infection H1N1", - is reported.

Chief doctor of sanitary-epidemiological station in Bohuslav (Kyiv Region) Oleksandr Mokhnach confirmed that doctors had hospitalized a man with suspicion on virus A/H1N1. "We made samples (throat swab) of the patient. The Laboratory of the Kyiv regional sanitary-epidemiological station obtained preliminary results on the influenza virus A/H1N1", - he said.

According to the doctor, the patient is a man of thirty years. "Now his condition is satisfactory. Those people who had contacts with him, were examined and are healthy", - said Oleksandr Mokhnach.

Swine flu was confirmed in Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky (Kyiv Region). In particular, the chief sanitary doctor of the Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky district Ivan Bryl said that the virology laboratory of the regional sanitary and epidemiological station gave a positive result for the virus H1N1.

"The sick man - a man at the age of 59 in very grave condition. He has been in hospital with medical ventilation apparatus from this Sunday. The man fell ill on October 19. He had fever up to 38 degrees. He did not go to hospital. 24 October, the temperature rose to 40 degrees. The patient asked medical care, only on November 27, and already on October 30 he was transferred to intensive care department ", - said Ivan Bryl.

The doctor also said that relatives and friends of ill person are healthy. "We tested those who contacted the patient. His family, wife and mother are healthy. His friends and acquaintances are also healthy" - he said.

The doctor has no information, where a man could become infected with swine influenza. According to him, the patient is a native of Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky district, and has no job and no recent contacts with the residents of Western Ukraine, reported ForUm.

At the airport of Lviv the second plane with a drug against flu Tamiflu arrived. This was reported today by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko. The Prime Minister said there are 200,000 packages of Tamiflu which have been purchased by the government at the price of Hr 67 per package.

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