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A physician seen near a patient suspected of suffering from pneumonia at a hospital in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. By Nov. 20, a total of 362 people have died of the flu and respiratory infections in Ukraine.

Seven people have died of flu and its complications (pneumonia) over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported.

Since the outbreak of the epidemic, 1.576 million people contracted flu and respiratory infections, including 35,689 people over the past 24 hours.

A total of 91,457 people were hospitalized during the epidemic, including 2,713 over the past 24 hours. Of those hospitalized, 63,284 people have been discharged from hospitals.

The ministry publishes no separate statistics on cases of A/H1N1 influenza or swine flu.