As many as 32 new prisoners at the temporary prison attached to Thane Central jail have tested positive for Covid-19. The undertrial prisoners were tested during their 14-day compulsory stay at the temporary prison before they were housed in the central jail. “On random testing of prisoners lodged in our temporary prison located at Vitawa area in Kalwa, on July 1, nearly 12 prisoners tested positive for Covid-19. Following this on July 2 we subjected all prisoners in the temporary jail to test and found 20 more prisoners infected by the virus. Since April 2020, a total of 232 prisoners of Thane Central jail tested positive for Covid-19 and 191 of them have already recovered.

Source: Hindustan Times July 06, 2021 18:45 UTC