Kamchatka authorities imposed quarantine for influenza – Sight

Monday in Kamchatka put quarantine regime for influenza, according to the government the edge.

In Kamchatka officially confirmed 39 cases of “swine flu” A (H1N1). Among the cases of 15 children, according to RIA “Novosti”.

«On Monday, January 25 around the Kamchatka Territory quarantine regime. This means that a ban on public events indoors mask mode in institutions and enterprises, met the restrictive measures in health care facilities, conducted daily monitoring of attendance at educational institutions and more. But while we are not talking about closing schools or other organizations “, – said Deputy Prime Minister of the Kamchatka Krai Valery Karpenko.

According to the chief state sanitary doctor of the Kamchatka Territory Natalya Zhdanova, issued a decree “On the beginning of the epidemic rise of influenza and strengthening of preventive and anti-epidemic measures in the Kamchatka region.”

«On the Kamchatka Territory epidemiological situation of influenza and SARS is estimated as the beginning of the epidemic rise. At the same time, the regional center incidence week epidporoga below 29% “, – said Zhdanov.

Federal Service announced on Friday an influenza epidemic in St. Petersburg after there were reports of deaths of 15 people from the virus.

Before that, it was reported that the proportion of influenza among all kinds of respiratory diseases in St. Petersburg to the 20th of January rose to 80%, but the epidemic in a city yet to be announced.

On Thursday, the chief specialist on infectious diseases of the capital Nikolai Malyshev said that one person died from the flu in Moscow in the current epidemic season.

On Tuesday, the head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova said that Russia begins the growth incidence of influenza, the bulk of the so-called swine flu (H1N1).

On Monday, Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova Russia warned that the flu epidemic in Russia will start earlier than usual.

In Yekaterinburg already recorded first in the Sverdlovsk region in case of death from swine flu. In another city Sverdlovsk, Kamensk-Uralsky, with the beginning of January, eight reported cases of swine flu. In addition, one case of swine flu diagnosed in the Novosibirsk region, the overall epidemic threshold was exceeded by 33.3%.