Manhunt under way for Covid-19-positive senior who skipped out before ambulance ride to Sandakan hospital


KOTA KINABALU: Health officials and the police are searching for a Covid-19-positive senior citizen who went missing before he could be taken to Sandakan for further treatment on Sunday (June 13).

Kinabatangan OCPD Supt Dzulbaharin Ismail said prior to 69-year-old Karim Jikri's disappearance, a medical team had visited his home in Tongod district, some 270km from here, to inform him that he had tested positive for Covid-19.

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