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Four coronavirus patients have fled an Isolation and Treatment Centre at the Central Hospital, Warri, Delta State.
It was learnt that the four patients, on Friday morning, overpowered the medical staff of the hospital attending to them before making their escape.
According to a doctor who pleaded anonymity, the four COVID-19 patients were a navy officer, a lawyer and his son and another male patient.
“The four patients insisted that they were not COVID-19 patients but had fever. We were having 10 COVID-19 patients in our isolation and treatment centre here in the Central Hospital, Warri. Yesterday we discharged two and were left with eight patients,” said the doctor.
“So, this morning, four out of the remaining eight patients escaped from the centre after claiming that what they had was mere fever.
“But frantic efforts are being made to have them back to the center. We have since reported the situation to the Commissioner for Health.”
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirmed 10 new cases of the virus in the state, out of the 350 new cases announced on Thursday.
The state now has a total of 116 COVID-19 Cases, out of the 11,516 recorded in the country.
