Romania to check all intensive care units after hospital fire kills 10


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  • Sunday, 15 Nov 2020

FILE PHOTO: Firefighter ladders lean on the walls of a hospital in Piatra Neamt, where a fire killed 10 at a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) intensive care unit, in Piatra Neamt, Romania, November 14 2020. Inquam Photos/tvmneamt.ro/Flavius Corfu via REUTERS

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Romanian officials will check all intensive care units after a fire killed 10 people at a hospital treating coronavirus patients, the government said on Sunday.

The fire broke out on Saturday in a room at the intensive care unit of the Piatra Neamt county hospital in northeastern Romania and spread to an adjoining room.

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