CORONAVIRUS | The National Penitentiary Institute has reported 609 cases of Covid-19 in prisons and 113 cases among prison workers while 13 inmates have died from the virus.
| Nine inmates have died after a prison riot in Peru over demands for better sanitary measures and Covid-19 medical care, the country's prison authority said on Tuesday.
Prisoners managed to "climb to the roofs with the aim of preventing access by by throwing stones and other blunt objects at them," the INPE said in a statement, adding the inmates attempted to escape but were not successful. Peru approved a decree last week that allows president Martin Vizcarra to grant humanitarian pardons to prisoners in order to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country's jails, which are currently at more than double capacity.
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