Huge gas explosion at Russian hospital - video shows inferno

Violent explosion in Russia: An oxygen tank blew up near a hospital for reasons that have not yet been clarified.

• There was

  an explosion near a clinic for corona patients

  in the Russian city of

  Chelyabinsk

  .

• A tank of medical oxygen exploded.

  Surrounding houses were also damaged.

• There were

  no

  injuries

  .

  The patients could be transferred.

Chelyabinsk - A tank of medical oxygen has

exploded

at a Russian hospital for

.

Videos show the extent of the explosion that occurred on Saturday (October 31) in the city of

the Urals.

The force also damaged surrounding houses.

The authorities announced.

People were therefore not injured.

The

were taken to another hospital or to a building in the city stadium.

Explosion in Russia: Video shows the extent of the incident

Powerful oxygen EXPLOSION rocks Covid-19 hospital in Russia's Urals

DETAILS: https://t.co/8hOzRZWWyD pic.twitter.com/C55uXy2bmp

- RT (@RT_com) October 31, 2020

It

was initially unclear

how the explosion came about 1500 kilometers east of

.

The authorities told the state agency Tass that the equipment for supplying patients with oxygen had only been installed in the past few days.

Corona in Russia: More than 1.6 million people have been infected

In Russia, the number of

has been

rising

rapidly for weeks.

More than 18,000 new cases were reported on Saturday.

According to official statistics, more than 1.6 million people have been infected since the pandemic began.

Temporary hospitals are now being set up in many cities and regions.

Russia hopes that the situation will

begins

.

They could start at the end of the year, said Russian

recently.

So far, two vaccines against the coronavirus have been registered.

However, important tests are still running in parallel to check their safety and effectiveness.

The

serum

was the first in the world to be approved for broad use in society.

Corona in Russia: Putin admits problems with vaccine production of "Sputnik V"

Putin

admitted at the Russia Calling investment forum that there were problems in the industry with mass production of a vaccine.

Sometimes the “necessary equipment” is missing, such as the hardware, he said during the question and answer session, without giving any details.

The number of infections is increasing again in Europe too.

The German federal government has decided on a second lockdown: a "lockdown light".

Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder has tightened the corona rules for the Free State.

A second lockdown is also expected in Austria.

First details about Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's plans have been leaked.