Three infected prisoners at Penang jail shared cell with index Covid-19 case
Screening for all staff and prisoners at the remand prison is expected to be completed today.– The Malaysian Insight file pic, October 11, 2020.
THREE more prisoners who tested positive for COVID-19 at the Penang Remand Prison yesterday are those placed in the same cell as the inmate who died from the disease on Oct 5. Penang Remand Prison director Mohamed Jusoh Ismail said there were 26 prisoners in the cell, and after the prison received information that the inmate who died was Covid-19 positive the remaining 25 were immediately isolated and quarantined.
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