Since Oct. 29, some 1, 122, 188 have fallen sick with influenza-like illness, 57, 286 are currently hospitalized, 357 in intensive care, and 189 people are dead, Ukraine's Health Ministry reported on Nov. 10.



The statistics appear to be out of sync with comments made by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who said the same day that new flu infections had dropped by a factor of four.



"All across Ukraine we have, at minimum, a four-fold drop (in flu infection rates) as compared with their peak from the second to the fourth of November," Tymoshenko said, in remarks reported by the Interfax news agency.



Her rival, President Viktor Yushchenko, meanwhile, called on the nation's politicians to stop masquerading as doctors and urged vaccinating the population to stop the spread of A/H1N1, according to the advice of some doctors.