Ten dead in fire at Covid hospital in North MacedoniaPolice and firefighters inspect the scene at a Covid-19 clinic after a fire broke out, in Tetovo, North MacedoniaSKOPJE (REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA) - Ten people died in a fire Wednesday evening at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in North Macedonia, authorities said. "A huge tragedy has occurred in the Tetovo Covid-19 centre," Zaev said on Twitter. The modular Covid unit had only been built last year at the hospital to look after coronavirus patients in Tetovo, a town of around 50,000 people. "The fire was huge because the hospital is modular, there was plastic," Tetovo deputy fire chief Saso Trajcevski told local television. North Macedonia has a population of around two million and its healthcare services are run down.

Source: Bangkok Post September 09, 2021 01:41 UTC