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Runaway COVID patient not infective
View(s):The patient who ran away from Angoda’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) on Friday before arriving at the National Hospital to be sent back to the NIID is not infective and there is no cause for alarm or panic, according to the doctor who is treating him.
Testing has shown that he has recovered and developed antibodies, said Consultant Physician Dr. Eranga Narangoda of the NIID. He is due to be discharged from hospital today.
“There is no risk of the patient infecting others or spreading the disease, so people should not be fearful,” he added.
The escape of the patient, who had been an inmate of the Kandakadu Drug Rehabilitation Camp, spurred a frantic search with the police seeking public assistance to locate him.