At the same time the disease spreads quite dynamically. Up to ten new cases are registered daily.

This was announced at a press conference this morning by Deputy Director for Biological Factors Research at the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Laboratory Center of the Ministry of Health Valentina Rezvykh. According to her, since October last year and to date only in the city of Dnipro measles 40 people.

Of the total number of cases, 78% were not vaccinated. For this period of time, no lethal cases have been registered, "she assured, adding that in the hospitals of the region, with the diagnosis of measles, there are now five people.

At the same time, Natalia Shmalko, the head of the department for treatment and preventive care for children and mothers of the department, said that patients with measles are being treated in three infectious diseases hospitals and infectious diseases departments in every regional hospital in the region. In the oblast there are 59 thousand doses of measles vaccinations. For the first quarter, the Dnipropetrovsk region is fully provided with a measles vaccine. Now there is a planned vaccination. In April, we are waiting for a large batch of a new vaccine, "explained Shmalko..

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, Acting Minister of Health Ulyana Suprun assured that in 2018 her department planned to purchase two million measles vaccines.