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Lytvyn: State of emergency needed in Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Ternopil
October 31, 2009 at 10:29 | Ukrainian NewsIn by earnest conviction, the state of emergency should be announced in the regions embraced by this epidemics," he said.
The speaker pointed to inadmissibility of politicisation of the issues concerning the influenza epidemics.
"The only premonition is ... that Ukrainian authorities, Ukrainian politicians not to try turn this disaster into political dividends for themselves," Lytvyn stressed.
He says the Cabinet of Ministers and the National Security and Defense Council are trying to solve this problem separately.
The parliament chairman pointed to the need of all bodies of power producing a single concerted decision.
"We need not to disperse as we've done ... we have to pass one common, concerted decision and all together hit to isolate this disaster," the speaker noted.
He also says that next plenary week from November 3 to 6 he will propose the parliament discuss the situation in Ukraine since the epidemics of the А(H1N1) influenza.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the ministry of healthcare has confirmed 33 cases of death from influenza and acute respiratory viral infections in Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Lviv regions since October 19.
As of 9am, October 30, 81,000 people were infected, of them 33,500 children.
A total of 2,341 people were taken to hospital, including 1,100 children.
The ministry of healthcare declared the epidemics of А(H1N1) influenza in Ukraine.
The Cabinet of Ministers introduced quarantine in nine regions because of the epidemics of А(H1N1) influenza and banned mass actions for three weeks. It also introduced three-week holidays in educational institutions.