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The ministry of healthcare of Ukraine has confirmed 381 lethal cases caused by influenza and acute respiratory viral infections as of Nov. 22, in 24 regions of the country, reads a report made by the ministry.

Since Oct. 29, 94 deaths recorded in Lviv region; 41 in Ivano-Frankivsk region; 25 in Chernivtsi region; 24 in Ternopil region; 22 in the city of Kyiv; 21 in Khmelnytskyi region; 20 in Donetsk region; 17 in Kyiv region; 16 in Chernihiv region; 16 in Volyn region; 10 in Rivne region; and 10 in Zakarpattia region.

Nine people died in Poltava region; eight in Vinnytsia region; seven in Kharkiv region; six in Sumy region; six in Cherkasy region; seven in Dnipropetrovsk region; five in Zhytomyr region; four in Kherson region; five in Kirovohrad region; and three in Zaporizhia region.

One person died of flu and acute respiratory viral infections in Crimea; one in the city of Sevastopol; one in Mykolaiv region; one in Odesa region; and one in Luhansk region.For the last 24 hours seven people have died.

In total, 1,608,603 people havegot influenza and other acute respiratory viral infections since Oct. 29; including 9,500 cases for the last 24 hours.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, 95,361 people have been taken to hospitals, 66,788 of them have already been discharged.

As of Nov. 21there have been374 lethal cases caused by flu and acute respiratory viral infections confirmed.