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Fire blazes a north Macedonian COVID-19 hospital, 10 people dead
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Fire blazes a north Macedonian COVID-19 hospital, 10 people dead

| @indiablooms | 09 Sep 2021, 01:10 pm

Skopje/UNI/Sputnik/IBNS: Ten people died and over 20 were injured as a result of a fire that broke out at a temporary hospital for COVID-19 patients in Tetovo, North Macedonia.

"A huge tragedy has occurred in the Tetovo COVID-19 centre,” PM Zoran Zaev said on Twitter. "An explosion caused a fire. The fire was extinguished but many lives were lost.”

Minister of Health Venko Filipce said those who have suffered injuries have been sent to the capital city of Skopje.

Tetovo lies in the northwest part of the landlocked country that faced the catastrophe around 9 pm local time (19:00 GMT) on the west side of the town. It took the fire services 45 minutes to extinguish the fire.

“The fire was huge because the hospital is modular, there was plastic,” Tetovo Deputy Fire Chief Saso Trajcevski told local television.

The landlocked country of two million has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases from mid-August, burdening their medical preparedness.

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