Health Ministry: Another patient hospitalized at "Matei Bals" in the pavilion affected by fire has died

Another patient who was in Pavilion V of the "Matei Bals" Institute during the fire on January 29 has died, the death toll reaching thus 18 in this case. "The Ministry of Health was informed today about a death among the patients who were in Pavilion V of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases "Matei Bals" in Bucharest during the fire of January 29, 2021," the Ministry of Health informs. According to the same source, the person was a 68-year-old man, transferred after the fire to the "St. Pantelimon" Emergency Clinical Hospital in Bucharest. "The patient was diagnosed with a severe form of SARS Cov-2 and had comorbidities. The forensic investigation will determine the causes of death," says the Ministry of Health. AGERPRES (RO-author: Roberto Stan, editor: Mihai Simionescu, EN - author: Cristina Zaharia)