Twenty-five years ago, on December 19, 1995, Ukraine’s Ministry of Health reported that more than 1 million of Ukraine’s residents have come down with the flu, with the virus reaching epidemic proportions in the cities of Kyiv, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhia, Dnirpopetrovsk and Symferopil.
Sixty percent of flu cases in Ukraine were reported among school children, which prompted the Ministry of Health to request that schools start Christmas breaks 10 days early. The break was originally scheduled to start on December 29 and end on January 10.