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All educational institutions of Ukraine closed for three weeks, quarantine announced in nine Oblasts

30 October 2009 14:18 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine introduces quarantine in nine western Oblasts of Ukraine. Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko said this opening an extraordinary session of the Cabinet of Ministers, APA reports quoting UNIAN.
She noted that today in the Lviv, Ivano-Frankovsk and Ternopil Oblasts the condition of prevalence of flu reached an epidemiological threshold.
According to Tymoshenko that is why quarantine is introduced in all these nine Oblasts.
Prime Minister said all educational institutions in these Oblasts were closed for three weeks, all mass events will be postponed, transportation of people from these Oblasts will be restricted.

Following the meeting, spokesperson for Prime Minister Marina Soroka told journalists that all educational institutions will be closed for three weeks.