Dienstag, 10. November 2009

Slovakia closes border crossings with Ukraine amid A/H1N1 fears | RIA Novosti newswire


http://en.rian.ru/world/20091107/156749426.html
Can anyone in Eastern Europe please tell us - is this true? There is very little in the mainstream press, BBC etc about it.

Is the Slovakia-Ukraine border closed?
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10 Kommentare:

  1. Neil _10. November 2009 um 14:55

    If it is true, they will be asking for all those pesky birds to avoid their air space too as they are the oves carrying this form of bird flu!!!

    Sorry, I could not resist that one!!

    I have a friend in Brno, I will send a PM and see if they know of anything... they are off line at the moment so may take some time to get an answer.

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  2. pigeon pie10. November 2009 um 15:11

    My ex lives in the very furthest western town in Ukraine. About half an hour's drive from Humenne, Slovakia, where I know people also. Neither know anything about a closed border.

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  3. Winand Hess10. November 2009 um 15:23

    all border crossings are closed - except ONE where Slovakian doctors examine people from the Ukraine for H1N1.
    There are 871000 "swine flu" cases and 138 deaths reported in the Ukraine; all schools are closed, etc.

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  4. pigeon pie10. November 2009 um 15:28

    I don't doubt you, Win, but can I ask where you got that information?

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  5. Winand Hess10. November 2009 um 15:32

    Swiss, Austrian, Rumanian newspapers on-line since Nov. 7 reported.
    one says that the crossings at Uschgorod, Tschop and Pawlowo are still open.
    the death toll is at 180+ - almost 1 Million citizens have been infected with "flu", etc.
    travel restrictions within the Ukraine.

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  6. pigeon pie10. November 2009 um 15:43

    Scariest thing is... about two months ago, I was planning a trip by train from Budapest, exactly through that route, Budapest to Kosice, then Chop, on to Uzhgorod. I'd have been over there now if I'd been able to to afford it, which as it turned out, I couldn't. I recall last time I went... by plane via Fiumicino, Rome. My airline, Alitalia, came close to going bust the week I was due to fly.

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  7. Winand Hess10. November 2009 um 15:54

    I was in China for 3 weeks during the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) pandemic in 2003...
    all went well because I knew what NOT to do (and a bit of luck, of course)

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  8. heidi breuer10. November 2009 um 19:39

    hasn't been anything in the german or swiss or french news about it-

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  9. Bohdan Pechenyak11. November 2009 um 06:42

    Yes, it was closed - news from the ground :). Only Slovakia chose to do this, apparently.

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  10. heidi breuer11. November 2009 um 06:48

    you know how stupid this is just as stupid as when Egypt killed all its pigs lol

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