The epidemic threshold for acute respiratory infections has currently only been exceeded in Dnipropetrovsk region, the press service of the Health Ministry has reported.
"At present [the epidemic threshold] has still only been exceeded in one region – Dnipropetrovsk region. It has only just been exceeded, at 20%," Serhiy Ryzhenko, the head of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service at the Ukrainian Health Ministry, said at a press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.
According to the Health Ministry, since the start of the epidemic season of 2010-2011, a total of 5% of the population have fallen ill with acute respiratory infections, 101,000 people have been hospitalized, and eight people died from complications, Ryzhenko said.
"Influenza B still predominates, [but] A-type viruses, including AH1N1 and H3N2, have been recorded," he said.
