NIZHNY NOVGOROD, October 5 (RIA Novosti, Olga Skomorokhova) – In the past 24 hours, 38 new cases of Hepatitis A have been registered in Nizhny Novgorod in central Russia, a local official said Wednesday.
According to the official, 1,517 people, including 222 children, have been hospitalized since the recent outbreak. About 50% of them have been discharged from hospitals for dispensary observation, but 687 people remain hospitalized.
The official said 66,474 people have been inoculated against the virus of the city’s 1.5 million people.
The epidemic is believed to have been caused by a sewage system breakdown.
