When the entire country is dealing with the second wave of Covid19, a new problem arises in the North-East. On Thursday, in Tripura, at least 30 Covid-19 patients escaped from a Covid care centre where they were admitted, as stated by Police. The incident took place on Wednesday late at night.

A senior police official said, “We have already alerted the railway stations and all police stations after getting the complaint. We suspected that they have escaped from the backside of the Covid care centre as there were securities in front of the centre.”

The locations of these Covid-19 patients have been traced outside the northeastern state after tracking their mobile numbers.

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These Covid-19 patients were learnt to have landed in Tripura from different states, including Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh, to appear for job interviews.

With a hike in Covid-19 cases in the state, the government has imposed a night curfew from Thursday till April 30 from 10 pm to 5 am.

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This situation of Covid19 patients feeling from care unit can lead to a situation of an escalating number of cases, if they are not brought back into containment or in any Covid care unit. Services like India epidemic intelligence service under National Centre for Disease Control can be expected to spring into action in this case, albeit behind the scene.