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The judge added that he had underlying chronic medical conditions but could have been treated as an outpatient.

Dr. Elizabeth Hudson, the regional chief of infectious diseases at Kaiser Permanente Southern California, said she received many calls related to outpatient cases of COVID-19 while on call over the Labor Day weekend.

Despite more than four years of outpatient treatment at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh and the local Macmillan centre in the Borders, Mr Owen's cancer had continued to spread.

They said they believed he was using drugs at the time, and he must now attend an outpatient drug rehabilitation programme.

“We are seeing outpatient cases increase,” said Dr. Elizabeth E. Hudson, the regional physician chief of infectious diseases for Kaiser Permanente Southern California.