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The United Nations has welcomed the increase in aid deliveries into Gaza afforded by a temporary truce but warned it was not enough to even start addressing the Palestinian territory's massive needs.

U.N. children's agency UNICEF said the aid flow to the northern Gaza Strip - the largest since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on October 7 - was "the right start."

At the session of the National Assembly, MPs considered the Report on the security situation that arose after the mass murders in the Elementary School "Vladislav Ribnikar" and in the area of Smederevo and Mladenovac, which was submitted by the Government of the Republic of Serbia.

A fire broke out at a hospital in Istanbul's Üsküdar district late at night on March 24, claiming the life of one patient in the intensive care unit.

The fire suddenly broke out in the surgical block of the Sultan Abdülhamit Han Training and Research Hospital and claimed the life of an intensive care patient in serious condition, a statement by the Istanbul Governor's office said.

Most of the Ukrainian refugees refused to enter the wagons located in the temporary distribution centers due to the conditions in them and stayed for hours in the buses.

"Organization - zero, information - zero. Nothing! We got off the bus and they left us," said one of the refugees.

Nine people died on Friday when a fire broke out in an intensive care unit at a Romanian hospital treating COVID-19 patients, officials said, the country's third deadly hospital fire in less than a year, Reuters reported. Firefighters extinguished the fire at the hospital in the eastern city of Constanta at around 0755 GMT, having brought in additional teams from nearby counties.

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The growing number of patients in seven days has literally exploded, currently amounting to almost 850 new infections per 100.000 inhabitants. About 43 percent of all known infections and 44 percent of all deaths since the outbreak of the pandemic were recorded only in January 2021, the health services of this country stated, as Deutsche Welle reports.

Less than a year ago, doctors in northern Italy were so overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients that they were carrying out triage in hastily erected tents.

The hospital at Cremona was at the heart of the unfolding tragedy.

For days, the number of patients in Serbia exceeds 7.000, and the number of examinations and hospitalized patients is also increasing. A new record for the number of deaths was set on Saturday.
State Secretary of the Ministry of Health Mirsad Djerlek said that the situation in the whole country is difficult and uncertain.

"I kindly ask the citizens, and as of today it has been officially decided, that everyone must report to the health centers first, to do the initial diagnostics there, that is what practically stuck the work in the admission and triage clinics in the hospitals themselves," the director of the Infectious Diseases Clinic said.