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Smoke is coming out of Moscow’s Kommunarka hospital, one of the main treatment centers for COVID-19 patients in the Russian capital, Russian television, taken over by Reuters, reported on Wednesday, Agerpres notes.
The NTV channel reported that one of the medical complexes caught fire and that an explosion was heard before the fire.
According to a source cited by Interfax, the building that caught fire was under construction and had no capacity for patients.
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The Emergency Situations Ministry said it is aware of the incident, but has no information on possible victims, the RIA news agency reported.
In the images released by NTV, fire trucks and smoke could be seen rising over the building into the night sky.
There have been several incidents in Russia in connection with the malfunction of equipment for patients with COVID-19 in recent months. In May, a fire, apparently caused by an overheating fan, killed five coronavirus patients at a St. Petersburg hospital, raising questions about the safety of Russian-made equipment. In late October, more than 150 patients were evacuated from a makeshift hospital for COVID-19 patients in the southern Ural city of Chelyabinsk after an oxygen tank exploded followed by a fire that left no casualties. .
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