Pekanbaru, Riau – The Riau Provincial Law and Human Rights Office has actually verified 16 prisoners at the Pekanbaru reformatory have actually checked positive for the novel coronavirus illness (COVID-19), with one detainee catching the infection.
” One prisoner passed away. He evaluated positive for COVID-19, based upon the result of the swab test. He was likewise experiencing heart disease,” chief of the Riau Provincial Law and Human Being Rights Office, Ibnu Chulud, stated at an interview here on Friday.
He also reported that four wardens at the facility have contracted the infection.
Among the prisoners who tested favorable for COVID-19 is being treated at Awal Bros Health Center in Pekanbaru, the capital of Riau province, he informed.
Chulud said overcrowding at the correctional facility is to blame for the quick transmission of the infection. The reformatory currently has 1,502 inmates, well above its capacity of 771 prisoners.
The correctional facility has an overall of 109 employees.
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He said the prisoner who died of COVID-19 had actually undergone treatment outside the correctional facility at the suggestion of the doctor on call.
The prisoner, who had actually been sentenced to 8 years’ imprisonment for corruption, had actually complained of shortness of breath on Monday (October 26, 2020) and had actually been required to the hospital, where he had actually been diagnosed with COVID-19, he notified.
Chulud stated the Riau Provincial Law and Human being Rights Workplace will coordinate with the local health workplace to perform swab tests on all prisoners in phases as a preventive procedure to prevent the transmission of the coronavirus.
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