“There are already two cases of confirmed deaths from influenza in the region,” RIA Novosti quotes him.
Boychenko specified that 121 cases of influenza have been detected over the past week.
We are talking, in particular, about swine flu (H1N1), subtype A.
In addition, the epidemiological threshold for SARS in the region has risen from 30 to 200% over the past three weeks.
On December 20, Marina Vorobyova, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Health of the Penza Region, announced the first case of death due to influenza.
On December 23, the head of the therapeutic department of the city polyclinic of Nizhnevartovsk, Roza Shaidullina, named the symptoms characteristic of swine flu.