A video emerged yesterday of an active covid19 patient fighting to flee Isolation.
The incident which took place at Abakaliki, Ebonyi State saw security personnel struggling to get the unnamed man into the ambulance.
The obviously sick patient fought the team of medical and security men so hard that everyone was panting. The team made efforts to explain to him that they were moving him to the isolation centre to save his life, but he would none of that. A few strokes of the cane did little to convince him that his situation was dire.
Gladly the covid19 patient was not sedated as at the time @theviraltrendz posted the video. It is also not certain if the patient finally escaped as at the time of report but no handcuff was placed on him.
It is indeed curious that an active COVID19 patient would fight to flee isolation. However, there is an obvious need for more public enlightenment in Ebonyi State as the patient probably thought he was under police arrest.
Nevertheless, one thing is certain, he has put the lives of both the policemen and the medical workers at risk considering that none wore gloves while some had no face masks.
Ebonyi State has recorded 234 confirmed cases of covid19 since the breakout of the disease in Nigeria. 97 patients are currently in Isolation while 137 have been discharged.
No death has so far been traced to covid19.