Hundreds Hospitalized in Armenian Flu Outbreak

January 8, 2016
A child suffering from a respiratory virus and his mother wait in the hallway of Arabkir hospital. (Source: RFE/RL)

A child suffering from a respiratory virus and his mother wait in the hallway of Arabkir hospital. (Source: RFE/RL)

YEREVAN (RFE/RL) ”” Hundreds of people, most of them children, have been hospitalized in Armenia following an outbreak of influenza that has forced the Armenian government to extend school holidays.

Hospitals across the country have struggled over the past week to cope with a continuing inflow of patients suffering from flu, pneumonia and other acute respiratory diseases. More than 560 people received urgent treatment there as of Friday. The vast majority of them were young children.

The Arabkir Medical Center, a children’s hospital in Yerevan, was packed with infected children, unable to receive more patients. “I came here with my children on January 2,”

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