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9 COVID-19 patients die after oxygen pipe rupture in Russia

Published : 10 Aug 2021, 01:42

  DF News Desk
File Photo Xinhua.

Nine COVID-19 patients died on Monday due to a disruption in oxygen supply at a Russian hospital after an underground oxygen pipe burst, reported Xinhua.

There were 71 people in intensive care at the Republican Clinical Emergency Hospital in Vladikavkaz, the capital city of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, at the time of the incident, with 13 of them on ventilators, local media reported.

Patients that have survived are currently under medical supervision.

An investigation into the incident is underway.