Osun State Government says it has found the missing coronavirus (COVID-19) patient who reportedly absconded from the isolation centre in Ejigbo early Saturday.
Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Funke Egbemode, who disclosed this in a statement on Saturday, said the unnamed female patient had been returned to the isolation centre.
Mrs Egbemode said the state government was still in the process of tracing individuals she might have come in contact with.
The commissioner added that security within and around the isolation centre had been beefed up.
She assured that the government would continue to enhance measures to prevent further spread of COVID-19 in the state.
The commissioner had earlier debunked reports that six persons absconded from the Ejigbo Isolation Centre.
Egbemode said it was one person and not six that was missing during a head count at the isolation centre.
The escapee is one of the 127 returnees from Ivory Coast that were kept at the isolation centre.
