Fire kills ten in Covid-19 ward
Fire kills ten at Covid-19 ward, At least ten people have died and seven are critically injured after a fire broke out
at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in Romania. The blaze burned through two rooms housing 16 intensive
care patients in Piatra Neamt before it was
extinguished, an emergency services spokeswoman said today.
Read Also: Just In: Elon Musk tests positive and negative for Covid-19 on same day
Irina Popa, for the Emergency Situations Inspectorate, added it is believed some of those killed ‘were infected
with Covid-19’.
Those receiving treatments were reportedly transported to the burns unit at a hospital in nearby Iași following the fire.
Romanian health minister Nelu Tataru said the blaze was ‘most likely triggered by a short circuit’ inside the hospital.
Piatra Neamt is around 219 miles north of Romania’s capital, Bucharest.
http://nationalsportslink.com.ng
