Among them are five lethal cases. All of them are recorded in the Odessa region, where three children died from this disease and two adults.

This Thursday, January 11, told reporters acting Health Minister Ulyana Suprun. She also recalled that in September of last year, when serious outbreaks of measles began in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil and Odesa regions, a headquarters was set up under the Ministry of Health and recommendations were given to these areas to limit the stay of unvaccinated children in children's groups - schools, kindergartens.

Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk oblasts listened, their incidence declined, and the Odessa region continued to allow children to go to school without vaccination and only after the death of five people did they finally realize that this should be done, "the minister said, that almost 80% of measles cases were not vaccinated.

However, Suprun reported that at present the measles vaccine is available in all areas in sufficient quantities.

She also recommended, in the case of information on the lack of vaccines, to report this to the Ministry of Health hotline or to the page of the department in the social network.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in Belgorod-Dnestrovsky on Thursday, January 11, with a diagnosis of "measles" died five-year-old child. This is the first death in 2018 in the Odessa region. This was announced by the Director of the Health Department of the Odessa Odessa Regional State Administration Vyacheslav Polyasny.