Russian-made ventilators catch fire, kill Covid-positive patients

Five people were killed in a fire that sparked in the intensive care unit at St. George’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, which was earlier redesigned to treat patients with coronavirus. The fire occurred on the sixth floor in the intensive care unit, the fire affected an area of ​​ten square meters. All the killed patients were connected to ventilators. Four of them died as a result of carbon monoxide exposure, another one died when the ventilator, to which the patient was connected, was turned off. According to preliminary reports, the fire started due to the hazardous overload of the ventilator.