China News Service, April 25. According to a Russian satellite network citing Sky News Arabia, a fire broke out in a hospital in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, that treated patients with COVID-19, killing 23 people and injuring dozens of others.

  Earlier, the Baghdad Al Youm news website announced that the fire caused 21 deaths and 40 injuries.

  According to media quoted sources from the health department, the cause of the fire was an explosion of an oxygen cylinder.