ALAPPUZHA: A Tamil Nadu native who came to the Medical College Hospital here with symptoms including fever, left without doing COVID-19 test. He bamboozled hospital staff and left while they were preparing to collect the throat swab sample.

The person came from Theni in Tamil Nadu to Kerala in a two-wheeler. He went to the hospital on the directives of health officials. He didn't want to go in an ambulance and went to the hospital on his two-wheeler.

The police have initiated a search to find the person.