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Ukraine will not face a flu epidemic this winter, Ukrainian Health Minister Illia Yemets has said.

"I think that Ukraine won’t see a flu epidemic this year. Flu epidemics are cyclical. There was a serious flu epidemic last year. This year, it was not seen. There were only a few cases of death from influenza," he said at a press conference in Dnipropetrovsk on Monday.