CORONAVIRUS PATIENTS DIES IN FIRE INCIDENT IN RUSSIA
Five covid-19 patients have died from a fire outbreak in an intensive care unit at the St Petersburg Hospital, Russia.
The blaze was apparently started by a short-circuit in a ventilator.
150 persons have been evacuated from the hospital premises and the fire has been contained. Although, the number of injured persons have not been determined.
All of the patients who died had been on ventilators.
"The ventilators are working to their limits. Preliminary indications are that it was overloaded and caught fire, and that was the cause," a source at St Petersburg emergencies department said.
The city of St Petersburg has a population of approximately 4.9 million people, has 5,483 hospital beds for Covid-19 patients.
The city has Russia's third-highest infection rate, with 7,700 infected patients and 56 recorded deaths.
Russia now has the third-highest number of confirmed infections worldwide. On Monday, it reported a record daily rise of 11,656 cases, bringing the official total to 221,344.
This development means Russia now has more confirmed cases than both Italy and the UK.
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