Iraqi COVID Ward Fire Death toll rises to 41

BAGHDAD:The number of people who were killed in a fire that engulfed the COVID-19 isolation ward of a hospital in southern Iraq has risen to 41, the Iraqi Health Ministry said early Tuesday.

Five more people lost their lives in the fire that broke out at Al-Hussein Hospital in Nasiriya city in Dhi Qar governorate, the ministry said in a statement.

The fire was caused by the misuse of oxygen cylinders, it added.

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