Four prison warders test Covid positive

Coimbatore: Four prison warders have tested positive for the virus at the Coimbatore Central Prison.
A senior prison officer said, “We have allotted a training school on the prison premises for them to remain in quarantine. The school was converted to an isolation facility on Wednesday. The facility can accommodate around 200 people at a time.”
He said they were not lodging any new remand prisoners directly to the central prison, which already houses more than 1,200 inmates, because of the pandemic situation. “To prevent the prison from becoming a Covid-19 cluster, we had requested the judicial officials to first send the remand prisoners to sub-jails at Avinashi, Sathyamangalam, Gobichettipalayam, Pollachi and Udumalpet after the RT-PCR test.”
The prisoners were, however, allowed to be transferred to the central jail after more than 20 days stay in the sub-jails.TNN