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Three patients died in a fire that broke out early Sunday on a coronavirus ward in a hospital in southeast Bulgaria, AFP quotes the rescue services as saying.
“The most likely cause of the fire was a lit cigarette of one of the patients,” the Bulgarian health ministry said in a statement.
Bulgaria's hospitals, frequently run down, are currently overwhelmed by the number of coronavirus infections. With only just over 23 percent of the total population of 6.9 million people fully vaccinated, Bulgaria has the lowest vaccination rate across the European Union.
