Embon said one of the seven patients is in severe condition in an intensive care unit.

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Doctors say he is a critical condition in the intensive care unit.

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The girls' father, Mohammed Riaz, who is believed to work at a plastics factory in Blackburn, survived the fire but is in a critical condition in the specialist burns unit at Manchester's Wythenshawe Hospital after being resuscitated by firefighters.

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He was told his friend was in the intensive care unit in a stable condition.

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But the unit deepened scientific understanding of the condition, isolating coronaviruses and rhinoviruses, two of the most frequent causes of colds.

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He underwent a second procedure on his brain but his condition improved and he was transferred out of the critical care unit at Morriston on Sunday.

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Singh, who is in the intensive care unit of Pakistan's Jinnah Hospital, is in a critical condition.

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