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The General Directorate of Internal Security Forces – Public Relations Division issued the following communication:
After circulating news related to the registry of Coronavirus infections among several inmates of the Roumieh Central Prison and some members, it is important that the General Directorate of Internal Security Forces clarifies the following:
First: The General Directorate of Internal Security Forces, since the first contagion in February 2020 of the Corona pandemic in Lebanon, began to take all preventive measures in all Lebanese prisons, especially in the central prison of Roumieh as it contains the largest number of prisoners. This General Directorate has worked to follow the internationally recommended methods for the protection and prevention of this virus (visits from behind the glass, sterilization and cleaning, conducting “online” investigations in coordination with the Ministry of Justice, use of the courtroom de Roumieh to facilitate the prisoner market to the courts …), This prevented the Coronavirus from entering the prisons.
Second: PCR tests were carried out on all prisoners who presented symptoms similar to the symptoms of the Coronavirus (fever, cough, sore throat and loss of the sense of smell …) worth about 200 tests, and all were negative.
Third: After carrying out the necessary controls inside the prison, as of 9/8/2020, it was found on 9/11/2020 that 13 inmates and 9 staff members were injured, for which the prisoners were transferred to a building that had been prepared for quarantine in the Central Prison, and was designated in cooperation with the Ministry of Health. The General, the International Red Cross and the World Health Organization. In addition, departments in various government hospitals have been designated to treat and follow up on those in need of treatment.
Fourth: The nursing team that monitors injured prisoners in their designated building within the prison is comprised of nurses from the World Health Organization who specialize in monitoring Corona cases, and physicians assigned to follow these procedures. by the Ministry of Public Health in cooperation with the Roumieh Medical Center and doctors from the Internal Security Forces.
Fifth: Currently, the health situation inside the Roumieh prison is under control, and during the last twenty-four hours, PCR tests were performed on a large number of prisoners and all the people who reported or appeared to have any symptoms of coronavirus.
The families of the prisoners whose children were infected with the Coronavirus were also informed, so they contacted them by phone and were reassured of their situation.
Clarification was required. “
