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Coronavirus: 15 patients jump fence to escape from isolation centre
BY OUR REPORTER
No fewer than 15 persons who had tested positive for coronavirus attempted to escape from isolation centre at Sobi Specialist Hospital, Ilorin, on Monday.
The patients, according to Saturday Vanguard, jumped over the fence of the hospital to escape from the isolation centre.
However, the 15 were rearrested and returned to the isolation centre after security officers who launched their network around the area went after them.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Kwara State governor and spokesman of Covid-19 Technical Committee in the state, Rafiu Ajakaye confirmed the incident in a press statement issued last night.
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The statement reads, “Earlier today, Friday, May 15th, 2020, the government’s intelligence network uncovered a plot by some COVID-19 patients who sneaked into the state to escape.
“This attempt was promptly foiled leading to arrest and return of the patients who had already scaled the fence.
“The government is dismayed that these persons were among the imported cases who intentionally violated the interstate lockdown and came into the state.
“Security has been further beefed up at our isolation centre. The government restates that COVID-19 is not a death sentence and there is no reason why anyone would want to escape and put their own lives and the lives of other people at risk,” the statement concluded.