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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
Tymoshenko pledges to revamp ailing hospitals by 2012 Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has pledged to revamp Ukraine's ailing hospitals and health system within two years.

Tymoshenko said this while meeting with medical staff of the Chernihiv regional oncologic dispensary.
Nov 1, 2009 at 12:27 | Ukrainian News
Chief doctor: mass refusal by citizens to be vaccinated partly to blame for A(H1N1) epidemic Chief State Sanitary Doctor Oleksandr Bilovol sees the mass refusal from vaccination as one of the reasons for the epidemic of flu and acute respiratory diseases in Ukraine.

He said this during the conference call meeting chaired by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Saturday.
Nov 1, 2009 at 12:05 | Ukrainian News
Railway steps up fight against A(H1N1) virus The South-West Railway has started prophylaxis against A(H1N1) virus at railway stations and trains. Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the press service of the South-West Railway.
Nov 1, 2009 at 11:25 | Ukrainian News
Ukraine gets assistance pledge from 12 countries to help combat A(H1N1) flu epidemic Twelve countries have expressed their preparedness to provide Ukraine with consultative assistance and equipment and medicines supplies to suppress the A(H1N1) flu epidemic.
Nov 1, 2009 at 10:57 | Ukrainian News
RIA Novosti: 39 swine flu deaths in Ukraine? Swine flu has been the cause of 39 deaths in Ukraine while over 150,000 people are believed to have been infected with the virus, the Ukrainian Health Ministry said on its website. Read the story here.
Nov 1, 2009 at 09:24