All News, Ukraine

Health Ministry: 53 dead from influenza The Health Ministry has confirmed that 53 people died of influenza and acute respiratory viral infections in the Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, and Lviv regions from October 19 to November 1
Nov 1, 2009 at 22:11 | Ukrainian News
Slovakia, Hungary to send medications and flu masks to Ukraine The governments of Slovakia and Hungary have decided to send medicatinos to Ukraine as emergency humanitarian assistance to help combat the influenza epidemic and preventing it from spread further.
Nov 1, 2009 at 22:06 | Ukrainian News
RIA Novosti: Yushchenko requests international help with flu epidemic Ukraine's president has asked the international community for help dealing with a flu epidemic that the country's Health Ministry said on Sunday has killed 53 people. "The current threat to the national security of Ukraine, which we cannot offset by just our own efforts, requires me to turn to our closest friends and strategic partners for emergency assistance," Viktor Yushchenko said in a letter posted on the presidential administration web site. Read the story here.
Nov 1, 2009 at 20:45
Washington Post: How to prevent getting swine flu and what to do if you have it Nov 1, 2009 at 19:56
Ukraine's Stakhovsky wins St Petersburg Open ST PETERSBURG, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Ukrainian qualifier Sergiy Stakhovsky recovered from a slow start to edge out eighth-seeded Argentine Horacio Zeballos 2-6 7-6 7-6 in a see-saw St Petersburg Open final on Sunday and clinch his second ATP title.
Nov 1, 2009 at 19:15 | Reuters
Ukraine and Poland have reached agreement on delivery of a large consignment of medicines to Ukraine as humanitarian assistance in combating the influenza epidemic in Ukraine.
Nov 1, 2009 at 19:01 | Ukrainian News
Turchynov instructs customs to clear influenza medicines without delay First Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Turchynov has instructed the State Customs Service to clear medicines being imported into Ukraine in connection with the influenza epidemic without days.
Nov 1, 2009 at 18:49 | Ukrainian News
Yushchenko instructs health ministry to provide extra ambulances for epidemic-hit Lviv President Victor Yushchenko has instructed the Health Ministry and governors of the regions where an anti-flu quarantine has not been introduced to provide extra ambulances to Lviv, one of the cities hardest hit by this week's flu epidemic. Yushchenko's press service announced this to Ukrainian News, citing the instructions he issued at a meeting on influenza in Lviv.
Nov 1, 2009 at 17:19 | Ukrainian News
The Defense Ministry has suspended the recruitment of conscripts because of the A(H1N1) flu epidemic that has swifly and suddenly swept across the country.

Ihor Khaliavinskyi, the head of the press service of the Defense Ministry, told this to Ukrainian News.
Nov 1, 2009 at 16:37 | Ukrainian News
Interior Ministry, FBI crack down on international crime gang behind US visa scheme The chief economic crime department at Ukraine's Ministry of Interior Affairs and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have cracked down on an international crime group that was engaged in the forgery of visa documents which allowed Ukrainians to illegal enter the United States.
Nov 1, 2009 at 16:05 | Ukrainian News
Yushchenko: Flu situation to stabilize by Nov. 7 President Victor Yushchenko hopes the situation with the A(H1N1) flu epidemic and other acute respiratory viral infections in Ukraine will stabilize within five or seven days.

Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by Viktor Yushchenko made public at a meeting concerning the flu epidemic in Lviv.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:42 | Ukrainian News
Tymoshenko: Don't panic during flu epidemic Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has called on politicians, civil servants, and leaders of all levels not to allow panic during the A(H1N1) flu epidemic in Ukraine.

Tymoshenko said this during the conference call meeting on Saturday.
Nov 1, 2009 at 15:38 | Ukrainian News
Education minister: Students should be provided with proper healthcare, not kicked out of dorms during flu epidemic Education and Science Minister Ivan Vakarchuk has called on rectors of universities not to force students from regions, especially from regions hit by the A(H1N1) flu epidemics, leave their rooms in hostels and provide them with medical aid during the holidays declared for the period of the flu epidemic.
Nov 1, 2009 at 14:43 | Ukrainian News
Family Ministry prolongs rest in Artek of children from regions hit by epidemic The Ministry for Affairs of Family, Youth Policy, and Sport has decided to prolong the rest of children from nine regions, in which quarantine has been declared for the A(H1N1) epidemics, in the Artek international children's center in Crimea and the Moloda Hvardia children center in Odesa.
Nov 1, 2009 at 14:31 | Ukrainian News
Fourteen cases of A(H1N1) influenza registered in Ukraine Fourteen cases of the A(H1N1) influenza have been officially confirmed in Ukraine.

Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko announced this in an address to Ukrainians on October 31.
Nov 1, 2009 at 14:17 | Ukrainian News