COVID-19 patient escapes from hospital, traced
Jul 6, 2020, 20:13 IST
Mangaluru, July 6 (): An 18-year-old youth, who had escaped from the Wenlock COVID-19 hospital here, has been traced and brought back, police said on Monday.
Devaraj had voluntarily reached the hospital on July 1 for a check-up and was under observation, the police said.
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On Sunday night, he escaped from the hospital after his test result turned out positive, they said.
A search was on with the help of the public, and the police found the patient near the Nehru Maidan here.
City police commissioner Vikash Kumar Vikash, in a tweet, congratulated the constables Shankarappa Lamani and Shankarappa Nandyal for tracing the youth. MVG NVG NVG(This story has not been edited by www.businessinsider.in and is auto–generated from a syndicated feed we subscribe to.)