Ukraine Hospital Fire Kills 3 COVID-19 Patients, Doctor

A medical worker wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) walks in front of the entrance to the red zone at an infectious diseases department of the Kiev city clinical hospital, where patients suffering from the coronavirus disease are treated, in Kiev on January 14, 2021. Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images

KYIV, Ukraine—Three coronavirus patients and a doctor died in a fire at a hospital in Ukraine.

Volodymyr Shinkarenko, the head doctor at the hospital in Zaporizhzhia, was quoted by Ukrainian news media as saying Thursday that the fire broke out in medical equipment.