KYIV, November 6 /UKRINFORM/. A total of 762,835 people have caught flu and acute respiratory illnesses in Ukraine, and 32 of them caught swine flu, Ukraine's chief state sanitary doctor Oleksandr Bilovol has said.

"Flu has currently killed 109 people, and 33,979 have been hospitalized," he said.

Bilovol said that 32 swine flu cases had been confirmed at laboratories, with 14 of them having died.

He also said that Donetsk, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr regions and the city of Kyiv had reached the epidemic threshold.

"Kirovohrad and Odesa regions have practically reached the epidemic threshold. Quarantine measures were tightened in Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk regions, and the city of Cherkasy," Bilovol said.

AP