China News Service, January 29. According to AFP reports, Romanian officials said that on the 29th local time, a fire broke out in a hospital in the capital Bucharest that treats patients with COVID-19, killing at least four people.
According to reports, the head of the emergency inspection department, Schiop, said that the fire broke out at around 5 o'clock on the 29th local time.
4 wards were affected, and 102 people were evacuated and transferred to other hospitals.
Secretary of the Interior Ministry Arafat said that the hospital initially found three patients dead, and the fourth patient died unfortunately after the rescue failed.
According to Reuters, as of January 29, there were nearly 7,700 COVID-19 patients across Romania, of which 989 were living in intensive care units.
The country has reported a total of 721,513 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 18,105 deaths.
Prior to this, in November 2020, another hospital in Romania that treated patients with COVID-19 also had a fire that killed 10 people and injured 7 others.