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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

This is stated in the Health Ministry’s operational data, a text of which Ukrainian News obtained.

The highest number of deaths is in the Lviv region (24).

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Health Ministry had confirmed 34 deaths from influenza and acute respiratory viral infections in the Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Lviv regions as of 21:30 on October 30.

The Health Ministry declared an epidemic of the A(H1N1) influenza in Ukraine on October 30.