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A fire has killed 13 coronavirus patients in a hospital in western India early Friday.
The fire, at a hospital in the Virar area on the outskirts of Mumbai, occurred two days after 24 coronavirus patients on ventilators died due to an oxygen leak in a hospital in Nashik, in Maharashtra.
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