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An intensive care unit in an Egyptian hospital caught fire this Saturday and seven patients with coronavirus, as reported by the authorities.
Police said the fire occurred in a private hospital in Obour, an outlying district of the greater Cairo area.
The fire injured at least five other people. The injured and other patients were evacuated to nearby hospitals, police added.
Firefighters managed to put out the fire, the cause of which is being investigated by the police and prosecutors.
According to the government daily al-Ahram, the first investigations indicated that the fire occurred due to an electrical short circuit.
A similar fire broke out in June in the coronavirus from a private hospital in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, leaving seven patients dead and one injured. There was another fire in May at an isolation center in coronavirus in Cairo that caused no casualties.
Egypt sees an increase in confirmed cases of the virus, forcing the government to reopen most of its designated hospitals to treat and isolate patients with covid-19 after the first wave of the pandemic subsided.
The Health Ministry on Friday reported its highest daily number of confirmed cases at 1,113, along with 49 deaths.
The new numbers have brought the county’s official count to more than 130,126 cases, including at least 7,309 deaths.
However, the actual number of cases in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country with more than 100 million people, is believed to be much higher, in part due to limited diagnostic testing.
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