GEORGE TOWN (Bernama): Police have denied that a tabligh doctor who underwent a Covid-19 test allegedly escaped from the Hospital Seberang Jaya (HSJ) isolation room on Saturday (March 21), saying the man had only left to perform his prayers.
Penang police chief Datuk Sahabudin Abd Manan said they received a police report from a doctor on duty at the HSJ emergency ward that a 52-year-old man, a member of a tabligh congregation, had escaped from the isolation room at 8.20pm.
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