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A coronavirus patient has fled isolation at one of Hong Kong’s largest hospitals. A manhunt has been launched as officials ask the public to help capture the fugitive.
The 63-year-old man, known as patient 7379, was isolated on Monday at the city’s Queen Elizabeth Hospital after testing positive for Covid-19, local media reported, citing a spokesperson for the hospital.
At around 5 p.m. local time on Friday, staff spotted the patient trying to leave his ward without permission. Medics tried to catch him but he escaped capture by sprinting up the stairs. He has not been seen since.
The hospital immediately contacted the police and are now asking the public to help bring the patient back. Officials said he was a local resident with no travel history and close contact with another confirmed Covid-19 patient.
There have been numerous cases of suspected or confirmed coronavirus patients fleeing quarantine in different countries since the start of the pandemic. In May, a 39-year-old man was arrested in Nashville, Tennessee, after jumping a fence while trying to escape mandatory solitary confinement.
In July, a man in his 50s cut a fence nearly 2 meters (6.5 feet) high and left a quarantine facility on New Zealand’s North Island. In February, a young woman fled a hospital in St. Petersburg, Russia, by disabling an electric lock in her room. She was then apprehended and quarantined again.
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