COLOMBO, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lankan police on Wednesday launched an urgent manhunt for a COVID-19 patient who escaped from a hospital located in western Sri Lanka, police said.
According to Sri Lanka's National Operation Center for the Prevention of COVID-19, the 43-year-old male patient ran away while receiving treatment in the Welisara Chest Hospital late on Tuesday.
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