A COVID-19 positive Algerian migrant has been caught by police after escaping from a hospital in Murcia using knotted bedsheets. The Algerian was in Cartagena’s Santa Lucia hospital for nearly a week after his boat of nine migrants was tested for COVID-19. The man clambered out of his fourth-floor bedroom window with a rope made out of bedsheets in the early hours of Sunday morning (July 5). An extensive operation to find him was launched and he was spotted by Guardia Civil agents in a disorientated state by a roundabout at 9.00pm. The Algerian national was then taken back to the Santa Lucia hospital.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 06, 2020 15:42 UTC