Airport workers participate in an aircraft evacuation exercise in Russia on February 5, 2020. – Nail Fattakhov / TASS / Sipa USA / SIPA
She had been placed in quarantine after a stay in
China, the authorities wishing to ensure that she did not contract the
coronavirus. The Russian who escaped from the hospital to evade her exams has been summoned by the courts, we learned on Friday. She risks being hospitalized again.
Alla Ilina, a young woman in her thirties, had been hospitalized on February 4 in Saint Petersburg (northwest) due to a sore throat when she went on vacation in January to China, plagued by the epidemic of the new coronavirus. Three days later, she successfully broke in and out of the electronic door lock on her hospital room door, then posted a detailed account of her escape on her Instagram page.
No reported cases in Russia
The administration of Botkin hospital did not appreciate the gesture and his chief doctor filed a complaint against Alla Ilina, asking to place her by force in quarantine, said on Friday the press service of the Petrogradski court of Saint Petersburg . The hearing has been set for Monday, the source said.
“A new placement in the patient’s hospital is not punitive, but preventive. She did not respect the 14-day quarantine, “said the local branch of the Russian health agency, Rospotrebnadzor. The Russia officially has no more patients with the new coronavirus in its territory after the hospital’s discharge on Wednesday from the second and last confirmed case in the country, a Chinese national.
Russian authorities have taken drastic measures to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus on its territory, which has killed more than 1,000 to date. Moscow has notably ordered the closure of its some 4,250 km of border with China, the cutting of rail links or the restriction of flights to Chinese cities.
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