Assistant Superintendent At Delhi’s Tihar Jail Tests Coronavirus Positive
3 inmates who had are available touch with the officer had been shifted to the isolation block (Document)
New Delhi:
Tihar Prison reported its first coronavirus case after a 45-year-old assistant superintendent examined certain for the an infection on Sunday, prison officers stated.
The assistant superintendent, posted at Central Prison Quantity 7, is a resident of Group of workers Residential Complicated of Tihar Prison, they stated.
Director Common (Prisons) Sandeep Goel stated the assistant superintendent had taken depart on Friday as he sought after to head house and meet his circle of relatives however he didn’t display any signs.
On the other hand, prior to leaving, he were given himself examined for coronavirus on Would possibly 22 at Amrapali Sanatorium and his effects got here certain on Sunday, he stated.
In keeping with the prison officers, because the legit has examined certain his touch tracing was once completed through prison government and it was once discovered that one prison staffer was once in shut touch with the assistant superintendent. The staffer has been examined for coronavirus and his effects are awaited. He has been quarantined at house.
Whilst 5 others, together with two different prison staffers, who additionally got here involved with the inflamed group of workers, had been despatched on house quarantine whilst 3 inmates had been stored in an isolation barrack, senior prison officers stated.
As a precautionary measure, the inflamed legit’s 9 neighbours, who paintings at other Delhi jails, had been requested to quarantine themselves and to not attend tasks even supposing none of them got here involved with him, they stated.
All of the males are at this time asymptomatic and government will stay a take a look at on their scientific situation, they added.
Until date, 18 other folks from Rohini Prison have examined certain for coronavirus whilst any other case has been reported from Mandoli Prison after a deputy superintendent examined certain closing week.
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