Flu epidemic kills 83 in Ukraine -- Health Minister

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Ukraine has officially declared a flu epidemic in the country as the outbreak of the deadly virus has claimed the lives of 83 people.
Health Minister, Alexander Kvitashvili, said during a press briefing on Wednesday in Kiev that "Ukraine is now experiencing a flu epidemic," reports Xinhua.
``The epidemic threshold surpasses in 18 out of the country's 24 regions.
He said that between early October 2015 and the end of January this year, more than 2.6 million cases of flu would have been reported across Ukraine, about 6 per cent of the country's population.
The minister said that a total of 19 people were killed by influenza in the Ukrainian capital since the start of the cold season and that 12 of them died over the past week.
Kvitashvili said that the vast majority of the reported influenza cases in the country were caused by the H1N1 strain, the so-called swine flu.
He said that to prevent the spread of the flu, most schools and kindergartens had been closed across the East European country since Jan. 16 and people were asked to wear protective masks in public places.
``On the eve of the winter season, only 120,000 people in Ukraine were given a flu shot, data showed.
A major outbreak of the H1N1 virus sparked a global pandemic alert issued by the World Health Organisation in June 2009.
The strain, which has been lethal mainly to those with complicating circumstances, was now considered a seasonal flu.

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