Fri, Feb 10 2012

Ukraine closes all schools to fight swine flu

Tue, Nov 03 2009 11:39 CET

byKyiv Post

2569 Views 1 Comment
Ukraine closes all schools to fight swine flu

Children wearing protective masks play in central square in the Ukrainian capital Kiev November 2 2009. Ukraine closed schools and banned public meetings including election rallies and restricted travel last Friday for a three-week period after confirming its first death from H1N1 flu.

The World Health Organization said Monday November 3 there was no evidence that Ukraine had a bad outbreak of swine flu but at the government's request it had sent a health team in to help the country cope.

Read more at the Kyiv Post

  • Print
  • Send via email
  • Translate to
  • Share:

Comments

Anonymous Vanko Wed, Nov 04 2009 15:55 CET
Report Comment

Cant have it all ways WHO you are the ones who said to treat all flu like symptoms as H1N1 you are now clearly contradicting yourselves what a surprise since your the ones who wanted to create fear amongst the masses


To post comments, please, Login or Register.


Please read the The Sofia Echo forum comments policy.

Influenza update as another Bulgarian town is overrun

Meanwhile, a mass inoculation programme to protect Greek citizens against the virus is expected to begin in a fortnight, Greek authorities have said.

More in this category

Auction reveals Ceausescu’s personal age of plenty

Iranian silver-plated pigeons, African leopard skins and a Chinese bronze yak were among the 70 items sold in an auction of gifts presented to Romania’s former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena.

EC praises airports for progress in dealing with extreme weather

Airports were also showing signs of better co-ordination and providing passengers with accurate real-time information, compared to previous period of travel disruption, transport commissioner Siim Kallas said.

Hungary's PM condemns international critics amid economic uncertainty

Viktor Orban defends government's record, new constitution in state-of-the-nation address as he slams European Commission.

Polish PM, digitalisation minister hold public debates on ACTA ratification

PM Donald Tusk invited authors, NGOs, experts and bloggers to a debate on the ACTA copyright agreement, but several key organisations, including the Helsinki Foundation, rejected the invitation claiming that the talks will likely offer no opportunity to discuss concrete issues.

Protesters clash in Budapest as controversial theatre director takes stage

'Dirty Jews' and 'Dirty Nazis' were the most popular chants when two groups clashed in front of Új Színház (New Theatre)

© 2000-2012, Sofia Echo Media Ltd.

Web Design by RIZN

Sofia Echo Media is part of the Economedia Group.
The news and information content on this website is provided by our editorial team and is copyrighted. Any unauthorised reproduction or use of it is strictly forbidden. Reproduction of this website's content is permitted only with prior written permission from the Editor-in-Chief, should be propertly acredited and provide an active link back to our site. Comments posted by the website's visitors are independent of the editorial materials and do not represent the views of sofiaecho.com. Sofia Echo Media cannot be held responsible for the statements contained in visitor comments. The percentаge change in the shares' prices are based on the price of the last transaction of the current session compared to the price of the last transaction of the previous session. Bulgarian Stock Exchange data is not real-time, but updated every 15 minutes, and should not be used as a basis for decisions about buying or selling stock options.