Coronavirus infection discovered in overcrowded Conakry central prison; Sierra Leone says detained man escaped from quarantine centre
oronavirus disease has reached prisons in Guinea and Sierra Leone, government officials said on Tuesday, raising the spectre of outbreaks in unsanitary and overcrowded jails.
He did not specify whether an inmate or a guard had been infected, but said the agency had “identified the measures to be applied urgently”. A man detained on April 17, on unspecified charges, fell ill three days later and was transferred to hospital. In response, authorities have closed the section of the prison where the infected inmate was held, moving the other prisoners and placing them under observation.
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