U.S. joins aid shipments into virus-ravaged India as travel ban looms

Police in western India said at least 15 covid-19 patients died when a fire broke out in a hospital early Saturday, the Associated Press reported. Fifty other patients at the Welfare Hospital in Bharuch, a town in Gujarat state, were rescued by hospital workers and firefighters, police said. On April 23, a fire in an intensive care unit killed 13 covid-19 patients in the Virar area on the outskirts of Mumbai.