4 Remand Prisoners Test Positive For Covid-19
By Yvonne Neequaye
Dr. Samuel Agyeman Boateng explained that after a fumigation exercise, the police requested samples of prisoners be taken because some were coughing.
The four are in isolation and doing well, Dr Agyeman Boateng said.
Two have been kept in the unused female cells and two at the male cells.
Samples of police personnel have also been taken, awaiting results.
Dr. Samuel Agyeman Boateng pointed out, “this becomes the sixth case count for my municipality”.
“We had an index case which recovered,” he noted. “A new case was recorded over the weekend before these four. So we have five active cases now.”
Asked what recommendation he gave to police officers to manage new inmates, he said “the courts are still working.
“Ideally, fresh inmates should have their samples taken and quarantined before they join others, but the cells do not have space.”
Source: 3news.com