INDORE: Two

patients ran away from quarantine in a hospital in Indore on Saturday

, triggering a frantic all-night search. Crime

found them at their

' houses on Sunday and took them back to isolation, only to have one of them run away again.

The route they took to flee and the houses they visited are being sanitized. The people they met are being tracked down to be put in isolation.

Authorities are mulling use of GPS bands on Covid-19 positive suspects, the way Hong Kong did, to keep track of them.

At the time of the escape, only one of them - a 42-year-old from Ranipura - had tested positive. He fled MRTB hospital with a 50-year-old

suspect on Sunday evening. Both of them had been admitted to hospital after developing mild symptoms.

They were traced by a joint team of crime branch and health department near a hotel. It turned out that the duo had visited their relatives' houses in Khajrana and Tanjeem Nagar.

The 42-year-old claimed that he had been "unnecessarily kept in isolation". The 50-year-old later tested positive.

CMHO Dr Praveen Jadia said, "The two persons escaped from MRTB hospital on Saturday evening and were found around 5am from Khajrana and Tanjeem Nagar areas."