In Ukraine, during the week - from November 20 to 26, 2017. influenza and ARVI became ill about 182 thousand people. This is stated in the bulletin of the Ukrainian Center for Disease Monitoring of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
During the reporting week, 182 243 people became ill with influenza and ARVI, of which 70.8% are children under the age of 17. The incidence of ARVI among the population of Ukraine is 470.3 per 100 thousand of population, which is more by 7.2% of the index of the last week - also stated in the message. At the same time, the least affected by influenza was recorded in the Ternopil region.
As reported URA-Inform, in Kiev, 177 patients with influenza were hospitalized for a week.