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At least 5 coronavirus patients dead after fire at Russian hospital: reports
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A fire apparently started by an overloaded ventilator killed five novel coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit in a Russian hospital on Tuesday, news agencies reported.
Russia’s emergency ministry confirmed the death of intensive care patients in a hospital in the city of St. Petersburg but did not say how many people had been killed. “Ventilators are at their limit.
According to preliminary data, there was an overload and the machine ignited, which caused the fire,” one source told the Interfax news agency.
The emergency ministry said 150 people had been evacuated from the hospital. [ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ] The number of new cases of the coronavirus in Russia rose by 11,656, as of
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