More than 150 people had to be evacuated from St George's hospital in St. Petersburg.
Five seriously ill coronavirus patients at a St. Petersburg, Russia, hospital, who were all on ventilators, died when a fire ripped through their intensive care unit on Tuesday morning.
"The ventilators are operating to their limit. According to preliminary data, an overload occurred which ignited the machines, causing the fire," a source told TASS.
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