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Doctor: Seven die of swine flu, 19 of acute pneumonia in Belarus
Yesterday at 21:04 | Interfax-Ukraine Minsk, November 4 (Interfax) - In two weeks 19 people have died of acute pneumonia in Belarus, the swine flu virus was officially confirmed in seven of them, Chief Sanitation Doctor of Belarus Valentina Kachan told the Minsk press on Wednesday.
She said the swine flu virus has been officially diagnosed through laboratory tests in 85 citizens of Belarus. Presently 31 of them are in hospital.
A virus (H1N1) took their seventh victim in Belarus
04 ноември 2009 | 20:18 | FOCUS News Agency
Minsk. A virus (H1N1) took their seventh victim in Belarus, said yesterday.
At the beginning of the month in the country to None was registered no case of death resulting from infection with influenza virus is dangerous.
Analysts have warned that countries such as Belarus and Ukraine will suffer the most from swine flu, as no funds are earmarked for prevention of infection.
MINSK, November 5 (RIA Novosti) - The Belarusian Health Ministry said seven people have died from swine flu in the country, Belta news agency reported.
"Over the past two weeks, 19 people have died in Belarus from acute pneumonia, and seven of them were confirmed to have the swine flu virus," the country's chief sanitary official, Valentina Kachan, said.
The reported deaths were the first registered from swine flu in the country.
Kachan said laboratory tests had confirmed that 85 people were infected with A/H1N1 across the country, adding that 31 of them were in hospitals.
On Sunday, 59 swine flu infections were reported in the ex-Soviet republic.
The chief doctor said a seasonal growth of acute respiratory viral infections had been registered in Belarus. She said the number of infections has risen by almost 70% in the country this year as compared to the previous year, with 2,154 cases of pneumonia.
Kachan said hospitals across the country had been provided with necessary medicines, adding more than one million packs of antiviral agents would be provided to pharmacies within a month.
MOSCOW, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- Seven people had died of the A/H1N1 flu pandemic in Belarus, the country's Health Ministry said on Thursday.
"Over the past two weeks, 19 people died of acute pneumonia in Belarus. Among them, seven were confirmed as having the A/H1N1 flu virus," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted Valentina Kachan, Minsk's chief sanitary official, as saying.
So far, 85 people had been confirmed as being infected with theA/H1N1 virus, 31 of whom were hospitalized, Kachan said.
Kachan said necessary medicine had been provided to hospitals across the country.
Up to Tuesday, the death toll of the A/H1N1 flu had risen to 14in Russia, and the number of confirmed cases totaled 3,122, said a Russian deputy health minister.
BELARUS LOSSES SUSTAINED BY FIRST in combat swine flu
05.11.2009
In Belarus, from acute pneumonia for the last two weeks 19 people died. According to the Ministry of Health of the country, only seven of them died of highly pathogenic influenza A/H1N1.
They either came from overseas, or close contact with those who had just returned to the republic.
Note that for the same period of last year pneumonia in Belarus, 21 people died, and therefore, the current mortality rate does not exceed the norm. The total number of cases of pneumonia this year - 2154 people.
In general, the country found 85 cases of swine flu, 31 people are in hospitals, 47 people have recovered. In the Ministry of Health added that influenza A/H1N1 in a timely treatment to the doctor is fully curable.
Ministry of Health stressed that the hospital fully equipped with essential drugs for the treatment of all applicants. During the month of pharmacy network received more than a million packs of antivirals "Arpetol", "remantadin", "Arbidol", "Tamiflu".
Note the Ukraine, which already announced a flu epidemic, 86 people died. It is officially confirmed only 17 cases of swine influenza, but mortality among the sick with the virus suspiciously high and does not fit the statistics. Of the 17 infected have died, five (ie one third). In Ukraine, the party medication arrive from other countries have expressed willingness to help.
In Russia, the virus is gaining momentum in Moscow, Siberia and the Far East. In Buryatia in connection with the epidemic of influenza entered emergency mode. The high incidence of Kamchatka, Sakhalin, in the Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk Territories, Bashkortostan, Primorye Baikal and Amur. The virus also registered in Saratov, St. Petersburg and Voronezh.
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