The hospital's Director Dr Uttam Kumar Barua said the patient, a Bangladeshi expatriate in Bahrain, had been admitted with fever, cold and breathing difficulties. But the patient fled in the meantime and we haven't been able to track him down." On what prompted the man to bolt, the director said: "He fled when he figured out that we would test him for coronavirus. Although doctors decided to run tests for coronavirus on him, Dr Uttam believes the chances of him having the infection are low. But the first coronavirus case was reported there on Feb 6.

Source: bd News24 March 15, 2020 11:47 UTC