Ukraine set a new record for the number of measles cases
More than 47 thousand people have fallen ill with measles in Ukraine since the beginning of the year, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The press service of the Ministry of Health reported this on Monday.
“Since the beginning of the year (from December 28, 2018 to May 8, 2019), 47,383 thousand people fell ill with measles... 16 people died from complications of measles. Recently, a 12-year-old girl died from complications of measles, who could not be vaccinated due to a contraindication to the vaccine,” the report says.
According to the department, almost 2,3 thousand people fell ill with measles in the last week alone. Most cases were registered in Kyiv, Kharkov, Ternopil, Kyiv and Khmelnytsky regions. In total, since the beginning of the measles outbreak, more than 100 thousand cases have been recorded, 37 of them have died.
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