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Inga Mauricienė, a spokeswoman for the Department of Prisons, informed BNS about this on Thursday.
According to her, the infection was detected in a total of 13 workers and six convicted.
In the open colony of the Pravieniškės correctional facility, coronavirus was detected in four inmates and six employees.
In total, there are 27 employees in self-isolation, as well as 142 prisoners, of whom 25 were isolated after contact with the patient.
A preventive measure is to isolate all new convicts, and the administration of the institutions works as remotely as possible.
According to I. Mauricienė, this is due to the isolation of all prisoners recently admitted to prisons.
This is one of the preventive measures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus.
“A preventive measure is to isolate all the new convicts, the administration of the institutions works as far as possible, remotely, resocialization programs for prisoners are also carried out remotely,” said a spokeswoman for the Department of Prisons
According to her, after the detection of coronavirus cases in the third sector of the open colony of the Pravieniškės correctional facility, the work of the convicts was suspended.
According to I.Mauricienė, the detention centers should also provide separate premises for the self-isolation of convicts.
In the open colony of Pravieniškės Prison, some 2,000 people are serving sentences. prisoners.
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