Nagpur: 4 Suspected Covid-19 Patients Escape From Hospital

Four persons admitted to a government-run hospital forsuspected Coronavirus in Nagpur returned home on Friday night without informingthe hospital authorities. They were later traced and asked to return to thehospital.

Their test results are awaited. A police officialsaid, "Four persons, including two women, had come to the Indira GandhiGovernment Medical College and Hospital (IGGMCH) on Friday morning to givetheir blood samples for suspected Covid-19. The persons were kept in theisolation ward but on Friday night they went from the hospital withoutinforming."

The police further informed that they later tracedthem and contacted them on phone and asked them to return to the hospital. The persons,however, said that they were annoyed over the delay in getting the test resultsand also over sharing the toilet with coronavirus positive patients admitted inthe hospital.

So far, three persons have been found positive forcoronavirus infection in Nagpur, and Maharashtra has reported at least 19 casesso far. 

Two people have lost their lives due to coronavirusin the country so far, and over 80 have tested positive – including 17foreigners of which 16 are Italians and one Canadian.