Nine persons were reported dead and eight persons were critically injured after a fire broke out at a private hospital in India's Central state of Madhya Pradesh on Monday afternoon.
India reported 13,734 new cases of COVID-19 during the past 24 hours, taking the total tally to 44,050,009 in the country, according to federal health ministry data released on Tuesday morning.
Three people were killed and four others went missing as flash floods struck Indonesia's province of Central Sulawesi, and a search operation for the missing is underway, a senior local disaster agency officer said on Friday.
