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Following the contingency plan, a statement from the General Directorate of Penitentiary Services says: “The inmates of pavilions H and C (around 200) and the identified workers (around 30) were evaluated for having contacts susceptible to the risk of contagion”.The 172 results received on Thursday morning indicate that there is one worker and 59 inmates infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
“Within this framework and within the scope of the contingency plan, the DGRSP determined the assignment of positive prisoners, generally asymptomatic, to a single wing of the Lisbon prison, where they will remain isolated, separated from the rest of the prison population and under the supervision and monitoring of the clinical staff of the Lisbon Penitentiary Center ”, continues the release.
Training activities and school and professional work, as well as visits, with the exception of lawyers, are suspended in the Lisbon Prison. Prisoners, of course, will uphold the legally enshrined right to the open air and the call.
The General Directorate also adds that, “in conjunction with the public health authorities”, “The test of all the inmates of the Lisbon prison (around 900) and the new test of all its workers (around 240)”.
On Wednesday, 248 cases of Covid-19 were registered in different prisons in the country.
Tires was then the only chain identified, given the high number of infected inmates: 148.
