10 inmates at Kalaburagi prison confirmed infected

Kalaburagi: A day after 10 inmates at the Kalaburagi Central Prison tested positive for the novel coronavirus, they were shifted to the Covid-19 ward at the Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) on Friday.
Nearly 60 inmates who had been released on parole as part of the precautionary measures taken by the law enforcement authorities to decongest prisons to arrest the transmission of the novel coronavirus returned to the jail recently. All of them had been housed in a single cell and were tested for Covid-19. When the reports confirmed that ten were positive for the novel coronavirus, it was decided to shift all of them to the Covid ward at GIMS. The other inmates who returned from parole to the prison have been quarantined in a separate cell.
Chief superintendent of Kalaburagi Central Prison Ramesh said that, inmates who had returned from parole had been kept isolated from the other prisoners.