By MARY WAMBUI More by this AuthorThe Nairobi County Emergency Response Team has evacuated 31 prisoners from the Nairobi Remand and Allocation Prison after they tested positive for Covid-19. The inmates, who had been admitted to the facility from various courts, were on Sunday admitted to various treatment centres. Kenya Prison Service Commissioner General Wycliffee Ogallo in a statement said that the individuals had just completed 21 days of quarantine when they tested positive for the disease. AdvertisementVISITS SUSPENDED“The suspension of all visits to our prison stations, Borstal institutions and youth corrective training centres has also proved effective in mitigating the spread of the virus to the prison population." So far, 11,000 petty offenders and convicts who had already served the entirety of their collective jail terms have been released.

Source: Daily Nation May 31, 2020 09:11 UTC