Keonjhar: Nine undertrial prisoners (UTPs) tested positive for COVID-19 at Keonjhar District Jail Tuesday evening, an official source informed.
According to the jail authorities, COVID-19 symptoms had earlier developed in one of the inmates a few days ago. Thirty others who had come in contact with him recently underwent the RT-PCR test following the prisoner being found infected with the deadly virus.
RT-PCR testing of 30 undertrial prisoners was done and nine of them were found positive after the reports came in. The infected inmates have been kept at a separate barrack in isolation, the official added.
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“One of our prisoners had been admitted to the Keonjhar district headquarters hospital (DHH) after he developed Covid symptoms. He had tested positive for the COVID-19 there. So, we conducted test of others who had come in contact with him. After the test, others came out positive,” Jailer of the district jail Amiya Behera said.
PNN