Covid facility fire in Andhra Pradesh kills 10, injures 20

HYDERABAD: A fire broke out at a hotel being used as a Covid-19 treatment facility in Andhra Pradesh’s Vijayawada city early on Sunday, killing 10 patients, officials said.

About 31 patients of the coronavirus disease were in the facility, most of them deep in sleep, along with six medical personnel and six staffers in the facility at the time the fire broke out. The 10 victims suffocated to death.

The fire broke out at around 4.45am on the ground floor of the hotel and spread to the other floors.