23.09.2005
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, September 23 (Itar-Tass) – 20,900 residents of Nizhny Novgorod have been inoculated against type A hepatitis, Nizhny Novgorod Vice-Mayor Sergei Gladyshev told Itar-Tass on Friday.
Children in orphanages and boarding schools were the first to receive the inoculation, he said.
The city has received 20,000 vaccine doses from the federal authorities, so it can inoculated all residents and even supply some of the vaccine to Dzerzhinsk and Balakhna, which have also reported an increase of the type 1 hepatitis rate.

Fifty-five people, including 20 children and teenagers, were taken to a hospital on Thursday with suspected hepatitis diagnosis. All in all, hospitals have admitted 990 hepatitis patients, and 120 of them have been discharged.