CORONAVÍRUS Fire in covid hospital: VIDEO The number of victims has risen, Čaputová sent a sympathetic telegram – Topky.sk

“There has been a terrible accident in Tetovo. Ten fire victims have been confirmed so far, but that number may still rise. It’s a very sad day,” Filipče wrote on his Twitter account. He also expressed his sincere condolences to the victims after the victims. In another post, the minister said that doctors are currently trying to save “the lives of several injured”.

In my moments I look for Tet’s bath, but for fire, I have a fire in Kovid’s center. At the earliest point of view, the official information is shared. Appellations for the mortality of the delivery and waiting for details of the undead.

– Venko Filipche (@VFilipche) September 8, 2021

Meanwhile, local media published footage of a huge fire that broke out in a hospital in western Tetovo at about 9 p.m. AFP describes that firefighters managed to extinguish the flames after about 45 minutes. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. The clinic in Tetovo was built only last year to treat patients with COVID-19, AFP recalls.

Coronavirus cases are on the rise in northern Macedonia

The number of new cases of coronavirus has been rising in northern Macedonia since mid-August. This forced the local government to tighten epidemiological measures, in connection with which, for example, citizens are now proving the so-called covidpasmi, reports Reuters.

In this two million country, 701 new cases of coronavirus infection and 24 related deaths have occurred in the last 24 hours. One of the highest incidence of the disease in the country is currently recorded in the town of Tetovo, inhabited mainly by ethnic Albanians.

The number of fire victims in the hospital rose to 14

At least 14 people lost their lives in a fire that broke out on Wednesday at a hospital for covid patients in Tetovo, northern Macedonia. The updated balance sheet was brought by the AFP agency on Thursday.

Source: TASR / AP

President Čaputová expressed her condolences to the survivors

The President of the Slovak Republic Zuzana Čaputová sent a conditional telegram to the President of the North Macedonian Republic Steve Pendarovský. The condolences were related to the fire at the hospital in Tetovo, which claimed many lives and killed dozens of people.

“On behalf of the citizens of the Slovak Republic, the President expressed in the telegram her sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims and wished the wounded an early recovery.” informed the President’s spokesman Martin Strižinec.