Swine flu in Belarus
Swine flu is raging all over the world, including all Belarus’s neighbour countries. But the Belarusian officials say “people do not die from swine flu in Belarus”. However, information about more deaths from influenza and its complications is being spread in Belarus unofficially. Representatives of the Health Care Ministry refuse to confirm or deny this information.
Topic: Swine flu in Belarus
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16:16 Mikalai Shaulau: We have faced completely inexplicable illness. WHO’s aid is needed urgently
Health professionals affirm that because of flu epidemic Belarus should seek help from the world medical community.
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11:47 Ministry of Health: swine flu situation turned out to be unexpected 86
About 1.5 million ARVI and flu cases have been detected in Belarus, first deputy health minister of Belarus Robert Chasnoits told to the “national assembly”.
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12:32 Flu pandemic swept through the country revealing putridity of healthcare system 83
Belarusian medical officer Mikalai Shaulau wrote an open letter to people of Belarus.
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13:56 Ministry of Health doesn’t know how many Belarusians suffer from swine flu 43
Despite of the epidemic, only children under 2 with acute respiratory viral infection and persons who have a grave form of flu are tested in laboratories for swine flu.
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15:34 Number of deaths from swine flu growing in Belarus 79
The A(H1N1) pandemic virus has been detected in 13 Belarusians died from pneumonia. However, the authorities continue to state only 165 persons suffer from swine flu.
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11:44 Russian swine flu vaccine supplies to Belarus disrupted? 40
The Belarusian Ministry of Health says it plans to issue a tender for purchasing A(H1N1) flu vaccine.
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8:43 No flu vaccine in Minsk 103
Despite the flu epidemic, information about deaths from pneumonia and the increased number of swine flu cases, an immunization campaign in Minsk ended.
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14:00 Epidemic grows: 165 swine flu cases 55
According to official data, the number of A(H1N1) pandemic have increased by 63 in Belarus over the last four days.
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9:57 Teachers shocked: Half of schoolchildren absent from schools 74
Minsk schools stay half empty after two-week quarantine.
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15:56 Quarantine in schools lifted, despite of protests of doctors 63
Education Committee of Minsk City executive committee adopted a decision not to extend holidays till November 16.
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10:38 Russian film director Maria Solovtsova died in Minsk from flu 32
The woman was taken to a Minsk hospital with symptoms of acute respiratory virus infection and died some days later.
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12:36 Number of swine flu cases grows rapidly 9
As of November 9, 128 cases of A(H1N1) virus infections confirmed by tests have been recorded in Belarus. The number of death cases over the day has grown by 26.
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11:06 Lukashenka took his son Kolya with a sabre along for negotiations with Yushchenko (Photo) 93
As Gazeta.ua writes, the heads of Ukraine and Belarus visited the Carpathian region on November 6. Alyaksandr Lukashenka brought humanitarian aid: masks and anti-virus medicines. He took his 5-year son Mikalai along.
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9:31 Means of Public Safety (Photo) photo 89
In response to the call of Alyaksandr Lukashenka to supply protective means against flu for the population, Belarusian light industry (BLI) started manufacturing of protective flu masks (PFM).
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16:42 Even seasonal flu vaccines absent in Minsk hospitals 9
Despite of flu outbreak and death cases which have become more frequent, medical institutions of Minsk experience vaccines supply disruptions. Vaccination is not made in most hospitals.
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13:54 Doctors started to die from pneumonia 37
A worker of the scientific and practical centre of radiation medicine in Homel has died from pneumonia.
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17:31 BelTA: Lukashenka and Yushchenko delivered aid to flu patients in Ivano-Frankivsk 9
Expendable materials and medicines necessary during the outbreak of the disease have been delivered.
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13:05 Flu epidemic officially announced in Minsk 72
In connection with exceeding the incidence of disease threshold in Minsk a flu and viral infection epidemic was officially announced in Minsk on November 6.
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9:05 Lukashenka doesn’t notice swine flu in Belarus but sends humanitarian aid to Ukraine 89
Viktor Yushchenko and Alyaksandr Lukashenka are to visit the Ukrainian one of the Ukrainian regions affected by swine flu epidemic.
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14:51 Lukashenka: “Both Belarus and Ukraine squeak like pigs today”
The Belarusian ruler has commented on the swine flu outbreak with death cases in an outrageously cynical way.
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14:10 Dictatorship is life-threatening 87
Doctors have to conceal information about swine flu outbreak in Belarus on an order of Lukashenka’s administration, and his personal attitude to the fact that people are dying in Belarus cannot be called anything but boorish.
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11:02 Swine flu cases in Belarus 4.5-fold higher than in Ukraine 62
According to the Ministry of Health, 85 people suffer from swine flu in Belarus. Seven of them died. The Ministry of Health of Ukraine says 17 swine flu cases have been detected in the country, 6 people died.
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Medicine professor: “Rate of swine flu in Belarus concealed”
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The Health Ministry turned out to be unprepared for the outbreak of disease – medicines haven’t been bought, there is no vaccine, and doctors are made to write in case-records that pneumonia is a complication of a usual flu.
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11:32 Authorities threaten to mass media writing about swine flu
Officials of Information Ministry will keep a close watch on what is written about flu outbreak by registered media ouitlets and their websites.
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9:35 Ales Byalyatski: “Minsk hospitals resemble military hospitals” 18
The human right activist is in a pulmonology department of Minsk hospital #3 with a diagnosis “bilateral pneumonia”.
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15:08 Secret document: Belarusians die from pneumonia complicated by swine flu 151
Medical workers report to the Health Care Ministry that, about ten people have died in Minsk from pneumonia, a A(H1N1) flu complication.
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11:11 Radio Svaboda source: People who died had swine flu confirmed
Health Care ministry denies commenting on the outbreak of pneumonia n Belarus, but hospital doctors started to reveal what is going on in reality.
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10:39 93% of Belarusians don’t trust official information about epidemic 36
The results of voting during yesterday’s Vybor (Choice) talk show on ONT TV channel were really shocking.
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12:59 Quarantine introduced in all Minsk schools
According to an official version, schools of the capital of Belarus have been quarantined due to the increased number of URI cases.
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11:29 Belarusian bloggers: Ministry of Health hides fatal cases of swine flu 122
More and more news about fatal cases of A(H1N1) virus in Minsk hospitals appears on the Belarusian Internet.
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16:21 People dying from swine flu in Minsk? 151
Information about death of sme people in hospital #5 has appeared on the Internet, but the Health Committee is unsure whether it was the swine flu.
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9:37 Onishchenko: “There must be swine flu in Belarus” 13
The chief sanitary officer of Russia Gennady Onishchenko put in doubt on Thursday on information about absence of cases of the influenza А/H1N1 in Belarus.
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