Russia orders woman back into coronavirus quarantine after escape


  • World
  • Monday, 17 Feb 2020

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court on Monday ordered a woman to be returned to a quarantine facility as a precaution against coronavirus after she staged an elaborate escape and said she was being kept against her will.

Alla Ilyina was quarantined at St. Petersburg's Botkin Hospital for Infectious Diseases after she reported having a sore throat following a trip last month to China, where a coronavirus epidemic has killed more than 1,700 people.

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