In the Odessa region, 50 cases of measles have been confirmed, 39 of them in Odessa.

This was reported to the correspondent of the Ukrainian Information Service by the epidemiologist of the department for monitoring compliance with the sanitary legislation of the State Consumer Protection Service in the Odessa region Lyudmila Krasnitskaya.

According to her, now in the region a headquarters has been created, which includes leading specialists, and an action plan is being developed in connection with the increase in the incidence of measles.

There is no flash of speech. We note growth in April-May, - said Krasnitskaya.

According to the USI, in two hospitals of the city - the regional hospital on Vorobyov Street and the city hospital No. 2 on Dacha Kovalevsky Street - several offices have been closed for quarantine. In addition, in the infectious disease hospital, a department for patients with measles. Here daily with symptoms of this disease come about 5-7 people.

The total number of patients entering the hospital with similar symptoms is about a hundred, and laboratory evidence is already half the facts.