Schools will move to an online regime starting Monday, October 30, 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. ADVERTISEMENTREAD: Children in more countries suffer mystery hepatitisKuzin, who also serves as Ukraine’s deputy health minister, said 141 people in the city and the region were in a hospital. Vinnytsia, which had a pre-war population of around 370,000, is the administrative center of the Vinnytsia region in central Ukraine. “So far, there is no single cause of the outbreak,” Kuzin said. “We are analyzing the centers of spread and are working with the population, in particular, to establish a circle of contact persons.”READ: One in seven Filipinos has ‘hyperendemic’ hepatitis B

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer October 29, 2023 10:31 UTC