In a bizarre turn of events, a 20-year-old woman who tested positive for coronavirus at AIIMS here allegedly escaped from the hospital, even as her husband filed a missing person complaint despite knowing her whereabouts, police said on Wednesday. According to police, the woman went to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) on October 18 as she was unwell. She got herself tested for the infectious disease and was found positive.

The hospital staff asked her to get admitted at the dedicated COVID centre, but she escaped from there, they said. Meanwhile, the woman's husband filed a police complaint alleging that his wife has gone missing, police said. During the course of investigation, it was found that the woman, after leaving the hospital, managed to reach her rented house in Zamrudpur village in south Delhi. Fearing that she would be caught, she left for her maternal house, a senior police official said.
"Her relatives, however, said that she had not reached her maternal house," he said.