The educational process has resumed in all schools of the Vitebsk region

December 3, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. The incidence of respiratory infections and influenza in the Vitebsk region is declining, Svetlana Radishevich, head of the epidemiology department at the Vitebsk Regional Center for Hygiene, Epidemiology and Public Health, told a BELTA correspondent. The operational conditional regulatory criterion for the incidence of respiratory infections has not exceeded the norm for several days in all four control cities of the region - Vitebsk, Polotsk, Novopolotsk, and Orsha. Since December 3, restrictive measures in Novopolotsk have been lifted. In the near future, it is planned to cancel them in Orsha and Polotsk. The educational process has resumed in all schools in the Vitebsk region. According to the regional sanitary service, from November 1 to December 2, 114,492 people in the Vitebsk region suffered from acute respiratory infections and influenza, 42.7% of them were children. 3.2 thousand people were hospitalized, 54.3% of whom were children. Medical workers of the region are actively engaged in preventive work among the population. As of December 1, almost 116,000 residents of the region have been vaccinated against seasonal flu. Over 110,000 adults and children were vaccinated at the expense of the republican and local budgets, and more than 5.5 thousand employees were vaccinated at the expense of enterprises and organizations. Vaccination of pregnant women in the region at the expense of the local budget continues. -0-