{"id":104821,"date":"2020-07-24T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=104821"},"modified":"2020-07-24T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T22:50:18","slug":"why-did-covid-19-patient-flee-from-idh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/07\/24\/why-did-covid-19-patient-flee-from-idh\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Covid-19 patient flee from IDH?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dc0\u0dd2\u0da9\u0dca \u0d86\u0dc3\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dba\u0dcf IDH \u0dbb\u0ddd\u0dc4\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0db4\u0dd0\u0db1 \u0d9c\u0dd2\u0dba\u0dda \u0d87\u0dba\u0dd2 ?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k_LmjbFGJQg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE (11:23AM): The COVID-19 patient, who was apprehended after making his escape this morning, has been brought back to the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, the driver of the three-wheeler in which the escapee travelled in, has been directed to the quarantine centre in Kandakadu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db4\u0dd0\u0db1 \u0d9c\u0dd2\u0dba \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0dbb\u0ddd\u0db1\u0dcf \u0d86\u0dc3\u0dcf\u0daf\u0dd2\u0dad\u0dba\u0dcf \u0dc3\u0ddc\u0dba\u0dcf \u0d9c\u0db1\u0dd3\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TcEX13kBv20?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The COVID-19 patient, who escaped from the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH), has been apprehended by the Sri Lanka Army a short while ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Army Chief Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said the escapee was located near the National Hospital of Sri Lanka in Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several teams of the Army were deployed earlier to discover the suspect who had fled this morning (24).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Western Province Senior DIG Deshabandu Tennakoon, the escapee had initially gone to the Main Street in Pettah after breaking out of the hospital at around 2.00 am today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Investigations are currently underway to determine how the escapee reached the Main Street, the Senior DIG added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has then arrived at the Colombo National Hospital in a three-wheeler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 41-year-old was being treated at the Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre in Kandakadu for his severe drug addiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was admitted to the Welikanda Base Hospital on the 9th of July after testing positive for COVID-19 while at the rehabilitation centre. He was subsequently transferred to the IDH on the 15th of July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The escapee, named Mohammed Kasim Mohammed Nasim, is a resident of Marble Beach Road, China Bay in Trincomalee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana UPDATE (11:23AM): The COVID-19 patient, who was apprehended after making his escape this morning, has been brought back to the Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH). In the meantime, the driver of the three-wheeler in which the escapee travelled in, has been directed to the quarantine centre in Kandakadu. The COVID-19 patient, who escaped from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}