The Government of Osun State has confirmed that the Coronavirus patient who escaped from the state’s isolation center has been found.

This came after the state’s Commissioner of information and Civic Orientation, Mrs. Funke Egbemonde debunked the earlier report of six coronavirus patients escaping from the isolation facility in the state.

The Chief Press Secretary to Osun State Governor, Ismail Omipidan has now confirmed that the escapee has been found and returned to the facility by the police on Saturday afternoon.

He said;

“It is true that a patient, a woman escaped from the isolation centre, but she has been apprehended and returned to the facility.

“Presently, we are investigating her movement to enable us to initiate contact tracing with anyone she might have contacted to avoid community spread of the deadly pandemic.”

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