The number of those who have died of flu and flu-like illnesses in Ukraine has increased to 513 people as of late on December 16, the Ukrainian Health Ministry has reported.
Six people have died of flu and its complications (pneumonia) over the past 24 hours, the ministry said.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, over 2.803 million people have contracted flu and respiratory infections, including 112,116 people over the past 24 hours.
A total of 160,491 people have been hospitalized since the start of the epidemic (October 29). Of those hospitalized, 127,826 people have been discharged from hospitals.
The epidemic threshold of flu and flu-like illnesses has been exceeded in Vinnytsia, Volyn, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Sumy and Cherkasy regions, Crimea and in the city of Sevastopol.
