Four patients suspected to have COVID-19, allegedly escaped while being taken to an institutional quarantine facility in Pune city, police said on Sunday.
"Four people, including a woman, are secondary contacts of a coronavirus positive patient. They were being taken in an ambulance to a quarantine facility in Sinhgad Road area on Saturday," an officer from Sinhagad Road police station said.
A search has been launched to trace these people, the officer added.
According to Health Department officials, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Pune has risen to 1,319, while the total number of deaths stood at 80.