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As many as 72 inmates at the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai have contracted coronaviruses and will be quarantined separately, Maharashtra Interior Minister Anil Deshmukh said on Thursday.
Previously, the state government had isolated eight jails in the state, including Arthur Road Prison, and ordered that new people not be allowed in and that those inside, including prison staff, should not be allowed to leave the prison during closing.
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But despite precautions, 72 inmates at Arthur Road Prison were found to have contracted coronavirus after coming into contact with a cook who had contracted the infection, Deshmukh told reporters in Mumbai.
“These prisoners will be quarantined with the help of the Mumbai Civic Corps,” he said.
The interior minister was speaking to the media after visiting the Gadchinchale village in the district where a crowd lynched three people, including two monks, on suspicion of being thieves on April 16.
Deshmukh also said that to prevent the spread of new coronaviruses in prisons, the state government had decided to parole some 5,000 prisoners who had been sentenced to less than seven years in prison.
The Arthur Road Jail, which has a capacity of only 800, houses some 2,700 prisoners, Hindustan Times reported.
The report also cited an unidentified senior police officer who claims that JJ Hospital state officials have already collected swab samples from 150 people in the prison and more samples are being collected.
“The possibility that COVID-19 may have entered the prison through BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) cleaning staff, sanitation or essential services workers who used to go to jail cannot be ruled out,” the official told the newspaper. requesting anonymity.
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Early in the day, The Indian Express He had reported that two prison guards and one defendant under trial staying in the prison had tested positive for the virus. Following this, a team of doctors from JJ Hospital was cordoned off to conduct tests on all those who may have been in contact with the inmate and the prison guards, Mumbai mirror reported.
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