With four inmates of the central jail in Indore in Madhya Pradesh tested been positive for coronavirus total number of COVID-19 prisoners in the city raises to six, a senior official said on Monday.
The Superintendent of Central Jail Rakesh Kumar Bhangre said that they were admitted in Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital on April 17.
He said that they are in the 28-34 age group. The number of prisoners infected with coronavirus here is now six. All inmates who came in contact are being shifted to a temporary jail to be examined by medical staff.
Bhangre said the jail holds 2,220 inmates against a sanctioned capacity of 1,230. The prison barracks have been divided into seven zones and the municipal corporation has disinfected them. The inmates have been given masks.
With three more deaths due to coronavirus Indore has now reported 52 deaths till Monday, the deceased included two men and a woman, in the age group of 42 to 47 years.The Chief Medical and Health Officer Praveen Jadia provided the information and said that deaths seven more people have been tested positive for coronavirus in Indore, taking the total number of cases to 897 in the district. Out of which 71 patients have been discharged from hospitals after recovery.
Earlier on Sunday a doctor working in a COVID-19 laboratory of state government tested positive for the coronavirus infection who was responsible for maintaining details of the samples being tested for the coronavirus infection.