COVID Patient Escaped From a Sixth-floor Window of Osaka Hotel
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The hotel where the man was hospitalized
Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Japan has had a system in which moderate cases of infection are treated in a hotel rather than hospital or at home.
This is a way of killing two birds with one stone by both reducing the burden on medical facilities while also utilizing underused hotels as quarantine zones while travel is restricted.
It’s a system that continues today with Japan trying to push down infections as the Olympic and Paralympic Games rapidly approach.
On June 19th, a young man was hospitalized – or rather “hotelized” – at an APA Hotel in the Higashiumeda area of downtown Osaka. However, it would seem this patient in his 20s wasn’t thrilled with being confined to a hotel for weeks and made a daring escape on 22 June.
Nurses generally check in on patients by regular phone calls, but on this day the patient wasn’t answering. When a nurse entered a room at about 1 p.m. he was gone.
The man broke the stopper that prevented the window from opening all the way and appeared to have slipped out through there. However, his room was on the sixth floor.
As a precaution, guards are stationed at the entrance and stairwells 24 hours a day, but neither they nor the security cameras in the hotel spotted the patient on his way out.
There was no type of scaffolding outside the building either, which means he must have somehow scaled down the side of the building to the ground and fled on foot…all while infected with COVID-19.
Readers of the news were amazed but also terrified that there appears to be a super-powered COVID-19 patient on the loose.
“It’s a real Crazy Climber!”
“COVID ninja.”
“He must have risked his life to escape from the sixth floor, but why? His sister’s wedding? A friend was being held hostage?”
“Seal off all of Osaka! He’s too powerful to be allowed out.”
“Man, this is how zombie movies start.”
As of the writing of this article, the patient’s whereabouts are still unknown. Health officials are currently trying to locate the patient and are considering filing a missing person report with the police if they haven’t already.
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