Five people were killed in a top Bangladesh hospital on Thursday after a fire swept through a makeshift coronavirus isolation unit, officials said.
The blaze occurred in Dhaka’s posh Gulshan neighbourhood and comes as the country faces a rising number of coronavirus cases.
“Fire service teams have controlled the fire in around a hour. Five people have died of suffocation due to the fire,” Hasan said. “Three of those who have died are COVID-19 patients and the rest two were COVID-19 negatives,” he said. “Thank God they controlled the fire before it reached the main hospital. Otherwise, it would have been a catastrophe,” he added.
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