The Osun state government says it has found the COVID-19 patient who reportedly fled its isolation centre. Ishmael Omipidan, chief press secretary to
The Osun state government says it has found the COVID-19 patient who reportedly fled its isolation centre. Ishmael Omipidan, chief press secretary to the governor, revealed this in a Facebook post.
“The State Government of Osus has found the only person who reportedly absconded from the Isolation centre in Ejigbo earlier today. The woman has been returned to the isolation centre. We are still in the process of tracing individuals she might have come in contact with,” the statement read.
There were reports that six patients who tested positive for the disease fled the isolation centre. But Funke Egbemode, commissioner for information, had earlier said a headcount, which was conducted in the morning, showed that only one person could not be accounted for. She would later say that the patients who left the centre did so without the permission to do so.
The commissioner said security within and around the isolation centre had been beefed up.
