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The Health Ministry confirmed 282 deaths of flu and acute respiratory viral infections in 23 regions, the city of Kyiv and Crimea as of November 14.

Ukrainian News learned this from a statement by the Health Ministry.

Of 282 lethal cases, 17 cases were registered over the past 24 hours.

According to the statement, since 29 October 87 lethal cases have been registered in Lviv region, 35 lethal cases have been registered in Ivano-Frankivsk region, 25 cases in Chernivtsi region, 21 cases in Ternopil region, 13 cases in Khmelnytskyi region, 12 cases in Kyiv region, 11 cases in Donetsk region, 9 cases in Rivne region, 9 cases in the city of Kyiv, 8 cases in Volyn region, 8 cases in Chernihiv region, and 7 cases in Zakarpattia region.

Also, 6 people have died of flu and acute respiratory viral infections in each of Cherkasy region and Kharkiv region, 5 people in each of Vinnytsia region and Sumy region, 3 people in each of Poltava region and Kherson region, 2 people in each of Zhytomyr region and Zaporizhia region, and 1 person in each of Crimea, Dnipropetrovsk region, Kirovohrad region, Mykolaiv region, and Odesa region.

Since October 29, a total of 1,347,538 people have contracted flu and acute respiratory viral infections in Ukraine, according to the statement.

A total of 73,373 people have been hospitalized with flu and acute respiratory viral infections since October 29, and 39,380 patients have been discharged.

The epidemic threshold has not been overridden only in Crimea, Dnipropetrovsk region, Odesa region, Kharkiv region, Kherson region, and the city of Sevastopol.

As Ukrainian News earlier reported, the Health Ministry confirmed 265 deaths of flu and acute respiratory viral infections in 21 regions, the city of Kyiv and Crimea as of November 13.