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Premier asks National Bank of Ukraine to draw up list of banks to credit medicine and medical equipment production Ukrainian Premier Yulia Tymoshenko has sent a letter to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) asking it to draw up a list of banks that will credit a program for the purchase of medicine and medical equipment.
Nov 2, 2009 at 14:13 | Interfax-Ukraine
Foreign ministry: Ukraine soon to receive 200,000 doses of Tamiflu Ukraine will soon receive 200,000 doses of Tamiflu, a medicine used to treat or prevent flu, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Valeriy Dzhyhun has said.
Nov 2, 2009 at 14:11 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine has 22 confirmed cases of swine flu Twenty-two cases of the A(H1N1) influenza, commonly known as swine flu, have been officially confirmed in Ukraine, First Deputy Health Minister Vasyl Lazoryshynets said at a briefing on Monday.
Nov 2, 2009 at 13:11 | Interfax-Ukraine
Tymoshenko: Panic over flu is 'groundless' Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said that panic among Ukrainian citizens over the announcement of the flu epidemic in the country has been caused by the "dishonest behavior of Ukrainian politicians and certain political forces."
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:53 | Interfax-Ukraine
Transport Ministry introduces anti-flu measures in public transport The Transport and Communications Ministry of Ukraine is taking measures to prevent the spread of viral diseases around Ukraine.
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:46 | Interfax-Ukraine
Ukraine to buy additional 700,000 doses of Tamiflu from Swiss producer The Ukrainian government is planning to buy an additional 700,000 doses of Tamiflu medicines from a Swiss flu medicine producer at a price of UAH 67 per pack, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has said.
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:43 | Interfax-Ukraine
Fitch forecasts 16 percent drop in gross domestic product The Fitch rating agency has forecast that Ukraine's GDP in 2009 will fall by 16%, but that it will grow by 3% in 2010, according to an agency report on key risks for the Ukrainian economy published on October 30 as a part of the annual Fitch agency conference held in Kyiv.
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:12 | Interfax-Ukraine
Church visitors pray for recovery of flu patients All churches of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on Sunday prayed for an end to the spread of swine flu and for the recovery of patients who have been infected.
Nov 2, 2009 at 12:02 | Interfax-Ukraine
Poll: Ukrainians give fewer bribes in 2009 Ukrainians gave less bribes in 2009 than in 2008, according to the results of a poll entitled "Education problems in the view of the upcoming elections," conducted by the Institute of Social and Political Psychology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, which was presented at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.
Nov 2, 2009 at 11:55 | Interfax-Ukraine
Flu death toll reaches 64 Sixty-four people have died of flu and acute respiratory infections in Ukraine as of early on Monday, November 2, First Vice Premier Oleksandr Turchynov has said.
Nov 2, 2009 at 11:43 | Interfax-Ukraine
Four Ukrainian doctors die from flu after treating patients Two medical employees from Ternopil region and two others from Lviv region have died while carrying out their professional duty and treating flu patients.
Nov 2, 2009 at 11:21 | Interfax-Ukraine
Death toll from viral pneumonia in Ivano-Frankivsk region rises to 12 The number of those who have died from viral pneumonia in Ivano-Frankivsk region has increased to 12 people, Governor Mykola Paliychuk has said.
Nov 2, 2009 at 11:07 | Interfax-Ukraine
Reports: Putin warns EU of possible gas disruption MOSCOW, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Russia has warned EU president Sweden of possible disruption to natural gas supplies to European consumers because of problems with main transit nation Ukraine over energy payments, Interfax news agency reported.
Nov 2, 2009 at 08:48 | Reuters
Yushchenko addresses nation, journalists about flu epidemic Obviously we are facing a difficult situation and today the effective assessment, accurate information on the sickness rate in not only the three regions but in the whole of Ukraine is an important issue.
Nov 2, 2009 at 08:23
RIA Novosti: Ukraine to check pharmacy stocks, prices over flu outbreak The Ukrainian government will review all pharmacies in the country to ensure they meet requirements imposed over the current flu epidemic, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Sunday. Tymoshenko said in comments broadcast on the main television channels that the inspections would start on Monday. Read the story here.
Nov 2, 2009 at 03:59