Indian police are searching for a man with suspected coronavirus who escaped from a hospital in the southern city of Mangalore.
The man was hospitalised soon after he arrived in India from Dubai on Sunday.
Officials told the BBC that he had been rushed to hospital from the airport after displaying symptoms of fever.
However, he had gone missing from the hospital on Monday morning.
“Our surveillance team has gone to his residence along with the police to bring him back to the hospital, ‘’ a health department official told BBC Hindi.
A report in the local Hindustan Times newspaper said his “escape” came hours after his family members entered the hospital, demanding that he be released. However, officials had refused saying that he needed to be kept under observation.