The passport of Leyson Smith Santamaria Orjuela from Colombia. He has escaped from a quarantine site for COVID-19 in (Photo courtesy of Quang Nam Police Department)Quang Nam (VNA) – A
has left a quarantine area in Hoi An city in the central province of without being given the all clear, the provincial steering committee for prevention and control said on April 12.
Leyson
Smith Santamaria Orjuela, 22, left the quarantine site at 19:00 on April 11, and local authorities have
been cooperating with neighbouring provinces to track him down.
Before leaving the quarantine area, he
had visited many places across the country and his visa expired on
February 22.
The
committee said he had not completed his quarantine period, and had not been
tested for the novel
coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
The
province has quarantined 6,116
people at health centres, hotels and homes, of whom 2,603 have completed
their quarantine periods. Out of 2,608 samples taken, 2,591 have tested negative
for SARS-CoV-2.
Three
COVID-19 patients (No 31, 33 and 57) found in the province have already
been released from hospital after treatment and quarantine.
Earlier, an American woman also fled
from a hospital in the central
city of Da Nang on March 30. She was then captured by local police and later tested negative
for SARS-CoV-2./.
Source: VietnamPlus
