Holidays extended in 159 schools in the Vitebsk region

November 9, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotovets - BELTA /. Preventive restrictive measures have been extended in 159 schools in the Vitebsk region, and the educational process has been suspended in another 90 educational institutions, the regional center for hygiene, epidemiology and public health informed a BELTA correspondent. Restrictive measures were introduced on November 4 to reduce the risk of acute respiratory infections among children. Today, we are talking about extending the forced holidays, particularly in the schools of the regional center until November 15. Over the past weekend, the incidence of ARVI in the control cities of the region (Vitebsk, Orsha, Polotsk, Novopolotsk) has decreased. As of November 9, comprehensive plans for combating influenza and ARVI have been fully implemented in 12 administrative territories of the region to prevent the mass spread of diseases. From November 1 to 7, almost 31.4 thousand people were registered with acute respiratory infections in the region, of whom about 950 were hospitalized. -0-