Hoodwinking the authorities, 20 patients escaped from a COVID care centre at Narendra Nagar at Uttarakhand’s Tehri, officials said.
The matter came to light when doctors visited the wards at the centres on Saturday night for a regular check-up, Chief Medical Superintendent Niraj Rai said. Thirty-eight people were being treated there, of which 20 were found missing, said Chief Medical Officer Suman Arya.