A fire at a hospital north of Cairo killed seven coronavirus patients, security and judicial sources said.
The blaze in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Obour district, on the outskirts of Cairo, also injured five other people, the sources said.
It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, the sources said, adding prosecutors had launched an investigation into the incident, AFP reported.
Firefighters were dispatched to the facility and stopped the blaze from spreading, local media reported.
