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Ukraine received 100,600 more doses of Tamiflu from Switzerland, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has announced in the Dnipropetrovsk airport where the humanitarian cargo was being accepted. Tymoshenko says the aid previously has been sent mainly to western regions but eastern provinces also need reserves of the medicine.

"The city and region of Dnipropetrovsk will be supplied, as well as eastern regions," the prime minister claimed.

The medical drug was bought from Switzerland at a minimum price, Hr 67 per pack.The cargo will be distributed among ten eastern regions. Hospitals in Dnipropetrovsk region will receive 14,360 packs.

As it wasreported earlier, 300,000 packages of Swiss-made Tamiflu arrived in Ukraine at night on Nov. 2, and 200,000 more packs on Nov. 4.

Kharkiv-based Zdorovia pharmaceutical company on Nov. 9 started operation of a Tamiflu production line, a generic of the Swiss-made Tamiflu antiviral medicine.