There are now 209 prisoners and jail officers of Cebu City Jail who tested positive of COVID-19 after were 63 added on Saturday, April 25.
A scene inside Cebu City Jail during a greyhound operation last February 29, 2020. | CDN Digital file photo
CEBU CITY, Philippines — There are now 209 prisoners and jail officers of the Cebu City Jail who tested positive of the coronavirus disease 2019 . Cebu City Mayor Edgardo Labella announced on Saturday, April 25, that they found out 63 more from theThis development brings the total number of COVID-19 patients from the city’s penal facility located at Barangay Kalunasan to 209.
“The Cebu City Health Department is closely coordinating with the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in adopting immediate measures to address the rising COVID-19 cases inside the jail facilityMeanwhile, Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia, in a separate live teleconference with the Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines revealed that a total of 163 samples from Cebu City Jail were tested for Saturday.
The Department of Health in Central Visayas has already recommended for jail authorities to continue doing contact tracing, and isolate COVID-19 patients from the rest of the jail population.But as a facility designed only to accommodate less than 550 prisoners, it now has a congestion rate of 1,106 percent.Cebu City breaches 400 in COVID-19 cases; majority asymptomaticThe comments uploaded on this site do not necessarily represent or reflect the views of management and owner of Cebudailynews.
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