Photo Gallery Life Under The Masks
Children playing in Kiev: Swine flu is spreading quickly in Ukraine and schools and kindergartens have been closed as a result. The government has published flyers advising the public on the pandemic.
A policeman wears a mask whilst on duty in the Lviv city council. The mayor of the city now greets his visitors wearing a similar mask.
A woman visiting a church in Ternopil: Around 200,000 people are reported to be infected by swine flu in Ukraine and more than 60 have died.
A border guard wearing a mask stands guard at a check point of the Ukraine-Hungarian border in the small western Ukrainian city of Chop. It is suspected that two kinds of flu have come together to cause the health crisis: normal, seasonal flu and swine flu.
Pedestrians in Kiev: Ukrainians who cannot get hold of masks have been advised to make their own.
Prime Minister Julia Tymoshenko at Kiev's airport, where she met a flight from Switzerland that was delivering 300,000 packages of the drug Tamiflu.
Some 300,000 doses of Tamiflu arrived at Kiev airport early on Monday. Some suspect the political panic about the illness has more to do with the upcoming elections than the swine flu itself.
