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Health ministry: Sixty-seven people die of flu in Ukraine
November 02, 2009 at 13:45 | Interfax-UkraineHe said at a briefing on Monday that 255,000 patients with flu and acute respiratory infections have been registered so far, and 15,000 of them in hospital, including 170 in intensive care units.
Lazoryshynets said that the Health Ministry had bought 67,000 doses of Tamiflu and received another 60,000 from the World Health Organization.
Moreover, 300,000 doses of Tamiflu were delivered from Switzerland to Ukraine in the early hours of Monday, on the basis of agreement reached between Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko and Health Minister Vasyl Kniazevych. This amount will be enough to treat patients for a month, he said.