Central Jail virus chain: One jailer, 10 guards, 1 kin test Covid positive

Nagpur: Corona scare kept spreading its tentacles in Nagpur Central Jail as another 12, including a woman jailer, tested positive. Apart from 10 guards, wife of one of them also tested positive. The results of another 47 samples collected from the jail are awaited.
With latest development, seven jailers, including two seniors, and 45 jail guards have tested positive.Five family members of the jail personnel and 12 inmates too were among the positive cases. One of the jail’s doctors has tested positive.
Panic gripped the prison administration as bulk of the jail’s 1086 inmates are yet to be tested. Tests of around 350 personnel, including SP Anup Kumar Kumre, have so far shown a high rate of infection spread. Infection among families of jail personnel cannot be ruled out too.
Aggravating the problem, the prison administration would soon have to vacate the Mount Carmel school premises where they had developed one of their two quarantine centres for new comers.
SP Kumre said a community hall in the premises of home guards would likely be made available soon for developing into a temporary prison. “We would soon be sending our first lot of personnel exposed to high risk activities and the family members of the positive persons to institutional quarantine centre at Pachpaoli. There is fear in the jail but we are addressing the personnel and inmates to mitigate their anxities,” he said.
Kumre also said a barrack has been identified to keep positive inmates and get them treated through the medical team allotted for this purpose to the jail. “We are requesting the divisional commissioner to spare a special team of doctors and nurses for the jail. The inmates not affected have been kept separately in different barracks but we are monitoring their health too,” he said.
Kumre said Vitamic C tablets and other medicines would be distributed among the inmates. “We are taking due precaution about the health of the inmates as well as the personnel. City police are also helping us with some doses of immunity booster medicines,” he said, “This is an unprecedented crisis after having managed to shiled the jail from corona for three and half months.”
City police’s chief medical officer Dr Sandeep Shinde also said he was trying to get immunity booster homeopathic medicines for the inmates and personnel immediately.