The Osun state government has found the COVID-19 patient who went missing from its isolation centre.
Ishmael Omipidan, chief press secretary to the governor, said the patient was recovered on Saturday afternoon.
“The missing person has been recovered a few minutes ago,” Omipidan said in a Facebook post.
There were reports that six patients who tested positive for the disease fled the isolation centre.
But Funke Egbemode, commissioner for information, had earlier said a headcount, which was conducted in the morning, showed that only one person could not be accounted for.
Some of the 127 returnees from Ivory Coast had been isolated by the Osun government. 22 of them had tested positive for coronavirus.
According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), out of the 209 confirmed cases in Nigeria, 20 patients are from Osun.
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