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The Amazon, which is by far the region of the country with the most cases of coronavirus and deaths from covid-19 for every million inhabitants, He has just confirmed that a massive outbreak is occurring in Leticia prison inmates and officials.
According to the Governorate of that department, 85 of the 191 cases reported this Monday correspond to the prison population.
The dragonizing Luis Díaz, president of the Sinalpec union in Leticia, explains that there are 185 inmates there and between Tuesday and Thursday the tests were taken at 95. “From there came the 85 cases,” he says. Last week one of the confirmed cases died, a man who had just been released.
Among the group of infected would be at least 10 seniors, adds Díaz.
(Also read: The harsh revelations of the director of the Villavicencio prison)
For the moment, three dragoneantes have been confirmed with the virus and they are asymptomatic and isolated at home. The rest of the nearly 30 officials tested negative, Díaz says.
The first versions indicate that the outbreak could have been started more than a month ago by a dragoneante who consulted with his daughter in the Leticia Clinic for emergencies, where he was treated by a doctor who later tested positive. The guard returned to jail without symptoms and had close contact with other colleagues.
“The establishment does not have the infrastructure to isolate any inmate and the overcrowding that we have is a risk for everyone. The general direction of the Inpec and the Unit of Public Penitentiary Services delivered us, through the ARL, the elements of personal protection to the officials. The protection supplies for the inmates were given by donations and are about to run out ”, relates.
(In other news: ‘No matter what we do, we will all catch it’: epidemiologist)
Díaz affirms that the only thing they can do for now is request the authorities to isolate the infected inmates elsewhere “Because in the establishment there is no field or space.”
In the daily report, Amazonas was the territorial entity with the highest number of positives, above even Bogotá, which registered 150.
In the department of the extreme south of the country 718 are infected with coronavirus, 26 confirmed deaths and another 30 under study. Six of the deceased are from an indigenous population.
Further, There are three people hospitalized in general care level, three in intermediate care and one in intensive care.
The other massive outbreak that occurs in the country’s penitentiary population is in Villavicencio. There 859 people have been infected, including inmates, guards and related. In addition, five people have died.
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