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Seven suspected coronavirus patients have been quarantined in Jammu and Kashmir, even as two of them had fled from a health facility before being brought back by the police. These patients have travelled to China, Thailand, Iran, Italy and South Korea before entering Jammu and Kashmir.

Officials said two people — a man from RS Pura and a woman from Jammu — with a travel history to Italy and South Korea, respectively, were quarantined at Government Medical College, Jammu, after they displayed symptoms of coronavirus.

However, they managed to flee from the quarantine facility. “Both the patients have been brought back to the health facility with the help of the police,” said Dr Shafkat Khan, nodal officer Covid-19 in J&K.

Dr Khan said their samples had been sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune for coronavirus tests and reports were awaited.