Since the start of the epidemic, 1.3 million people have contracted flu and acute respiratory infections. As many as 265 people have died from the flu and other acute respiratory viral infections in Ukraine as of November 13 including 26 over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Health Ministry's press service reported on Friday.

Since the start of the epidemic, 1.3 million people have contracted flu and acute respiratory infections, including 55, 353 in the last 24 hours.

Some 69, 691 people have been hospitalized during the epidemic, including 4, 076 over the past 24 hours.

Of those hospitalized, 35, 454 people have been discharged from hospitals, including 11, 560 diagnosed with flu and pneumonia.