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Escaped Lankan COVID-19 patient caught

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Colombo: Sri Lankan authorities on Friday caught a COVID-19 patient after he had escaped from a hospital on the outskirts of Colombo while receiving treatment, police said.

Earlier in the day, the police and army launched a massive manhunt to catch the 41-year-old drug addict infected with COVID-19 who had escaped from the National Infectious Disease Hospital, spreading panic across Colombo, Xinhua news agency reported.

The patient, an inmate at the Kandakadu Drug Rehabilitation Center was transferred to the National Infectious Disease Hospitalo as he had tested positive for COVID-19 and needed urgent treatment. The Rehabilitation Center has become a COVID-19 cluster as several inmates and employees working there had tested positive for the virus in recent days. (IANS)

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