Hepatitis outbreak closes schools, sends scores to hospital in Ukraine's Vinnytsia


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  • Sunday, 29 Oct 2023

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view shows buildings damaged by a Russian missile strike in Vinnytsia, Ukraine July 15, 2022. REUTERS/Stringer

(Reuters) - Schools will move to an online regime starting Monday in Ukraine's central city of Vinnytsia after a Hepatitis A outbreak sent scores of children and adults to the hospital, the country's chief sanitary official said over the weekend.

"The main thing now is to establish the centre of the outbreak and the causes in order to stop the spread of the viral Hepatitis A among the population as soon as possible," Chief Sanitary Doctor of Ukraine Ihor Kuzin wrote on Facebook on Saturday.

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