Almost half of the inmates at a jail in south Kashmir have tested positive for COVID-19, but their condition is stable, officials said on Friday, and stressed that spraying, fumigation and other steps to curb the spread of the virus were carried out at a number of prisons.
Superintendent of Anantnag District Jail Syroz Ahmad Bhat said, “ Of the 190 inmates at the prison, 86 inmates have tested positive for the coronavirus infection.”
“ Measures have been taken to contain the spread of the infection among other prisoners. We have isolated these 86 prisoners. Forty-eight of them have been shifted to a nearby facility at high ground, while the rest have been placed in two separate blocks within the jail complex,” he told PTI.