An epidemic of the A/H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, has started in Ukraine, Health Minister Vasyl Kniazevych announced at a press conference on Friday.

“Unfortunately, we have to state that an A/H1N1 flu epidemic has in fact started in Ukraine,” he said.

According to official annoucement of Ukraine’s Prime minister Ulia Tymoshenko, a total of 9 Regions of Ukraine are on Quarantine All school and state owned institutions will be closed for a period of 3 weeks.

The Health Ministry is planning to impose quarantine throughout Ukraine, he said responding a question from Interfax-Ukraine.

“We are considering the possibility of introducing quarantine not only in the western regions but throughout the country because the virus is spreading extremely fast,” he said.

According to the announcement made by Natalia Tigibko, director of epidemic institution of Lviv, a total of number of over 6000 people have been hospitalized due to the respiratory infections in the last 24 hours.

http://bit.ly/1qgwb1 via [interfax, vz, капутік.net]