Out of 180 inmates of Bhondsi jail who had undergone Covid-19 checkups on Sunday and Monday, the test results of 33 have been found positive for the virus. The test results of 15 prisoners were to be detected positive on Tuesday while 18 results were received on Wednesday.
Apart from Bhondsi jail cases, 18 commandos of the National Security Guards (NSG) have also tested positive for coronavirus at the NSG campus in Manesar.
The health department tested 44 suspects, of which 18 commandos were found to be corona positive.
Chief Medical Officer Gurugram Dr Virender Yadav, while confirming the cases at the jail and NSG campus said, a team of health department is collecting more samples at both the places. Contact tracing of those found infected is being done.
With the detection of these cases at both the locations, “A team of health department camped inside at both the locations for the contact tracing of the infected persons to check the possibility of further spread of the virus,” said Yadav.
The jail authorities claimed that as per the protocol followed at the district jail, they said, all new prisoners are being kept in the other cordon to avoid their contact with other inmates. With this strategy the possibility of spread of infection at large is less.
Despite several corona prevention measures already in jail, it is not yet clear how these prisoners got infected.
Earlier in April a jail warder of Bhondsi jail was tested positive for the disease.
To prevent contamination, the jail premises and all the barracks are regularly being sanitised by the Municipal Corporation of Gurugram (MCG) and the medical teams,” Yadav said.
Apart from this, On Wednesday, there were a total of 12,297 Covid-19 cases in the city, of which 1,145 were active cases, with 133 deaths so far. In the past 24 hours, there were 184 fresh Covid cases in the district, as per the government’s bulletin.