Toll from Flu Increases to 32 in Russia

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Toll from Flu Increases to 32 in Russia

The number of deaths from flu as a result of the current epidemic in Russia has increased to 32.

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The number of deaths from flu as a result of the current epidemic in Russia has increased to 32.

But according to the state-run Epidemic Control Department, the toll has claimed 31 lives: four in St. Petersburg, two in Voronezh, four in Astrakhan, seven in Moscow, two in Chelyabinsk, two in the Ryazan region, two in Kaliningrad, and two in Chita.

Influenza has killed one patient in Ulyanovsk, one in the Moscow countryside, one in Rostov-on-Don, one in Samara, one in Novgorod, and one in Yekaterinburg.

Earlier, a report came in from Syktyvkar - a 12-year-old girl died there from flu.

This puts the number of victims at 32.

The epidemic has engulfed 61 regions of Russia, the department reports.

Sources also note that the epidemic is over in the territories of Omsk, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Ryazan and Rostov regions, Moscow Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Ufa, Samara, Volgograd, and Krasnodar.

Source: Agencies

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