{"id":1120,"date":"2021-09-11T01:50:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T01:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2021-09-11T01:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-11T01:50:53","slug":"north-macedonia-hospital-fire-kills-at-least-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=1120","title":{"rendered":"North Macedonia hospital fire kills at least 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>At least 10 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in North Macedonia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fbcnews.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/North-Macedonia.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Footage shared on social media showed a building in flames and a thick cloud of black smoke billowing into the air near a main road in the city of Tetovo.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters reportedly extinguished the blaze less than an hour after it broke out at about 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Health Minister, Venko Filipce warned the number of casualties could rise.<\/p>\n<p>The temporary facility was reportedly constructed last year to care for people made seriously ill from the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>North Macedonia has a population of about two million people.<\/p>\n<p>The country has reported more than 180,000 cases of COVID-19 and 6,153 coronavirus-related deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University data.<\/p>\n<p>-BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 10 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in North Macedonia. Footage shared on social media showed a building in flames and a thick cloud of black smoke billowing into the air near a main road in the city of Tetovo. Firefighters reportedly extinguished the blaze less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,177],"tags":[59,227,212],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-featured","tag-latest-news","tag-world"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}