Fire at Romanian COVID-19 Hospital Kills Seven People

Fire at Romanian COVID-19 Hospital Kills Seven People
A firetruck is seen at the site of COVID-19 hospital Matei Bals, after a fire broke out in Bucharest, Romania on Jan. 29, 2021. Octav Ganea/Inquam Photos via Reuters
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BUCHAREST—Seven people died on Friday when a fire broke out in a Romanian intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients, officials said, the country’s third deadly hospital fire in less than a year.

Video footage showed patients jumping out of windows from the hospital’s lower levels and firefighters carrying people out.