Sarajevo police have been informed that one coronavirus infected person has escaped from the Podhrastovi isolation center, spokesperson of the Police Directorate of the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Interior Mirza Hadziabdic confirmed to Klix.ba.
“At 15:47 o’clock, the Second Sarajevo Police Directorate was informed that one person had walked away from the Isolatorium of a clinic facility in Podhrastovi and that he was positive for a coronavirus,” Hadziabdic said, adding that police officers of the Police Directorate of the MoI CS take the necessary actions to find the person.
Unofficially, this is a Polish national who was found to be coronavirus positive and was to be sent to an isolation ward.
This is not the first reported case in Bosnia and Herzegovina that persons infected with coronavirus escaped from an isolation facility. Two coronavirus-infected individuals fled an isolation facility in Banja Luka at the end of March.