MUMBAI:
Sunil Ramanand
, inspector general (Prisons) informed the Bombay high court on Monday that
Covid-19 positive inmates
at
Arthur Road Jail
are “getting cured” with only 60
testing positive
on June 5 from among the original 158 who had tested positive in the May 5 swab.
Besides, he said none of 2,082 inmates at Arthur Road jail screened last week for Covid- 19 (pulse, oxygen, temperature, etc) were found to be symptomatic. The compliance report in response to orders passed by HC last month in a PIL filed by an NGO the Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) and Archana Rupwate said the authorities do not deem it necessary to test swabs of all the inmates as per latest guidelines by
Indian Council of Medical Research
(ICMR).
The report said swabs of 234 inmates of Arthur Road jail were taken on May 5 and 7, of these 158 were found positive. On May 20, swabs of 220 inmates including 158 inmates who had tested positive, were taken and tested, of these 96 were found positive. Thereafter, on June 5, swabs of 91 were taken and tested, and 60 of those had tested positive.
The “infected inmates were getting cured due to unceasing efforts of the prison department and medical authorities,” said the report.
Swati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, w...
Read MoreSwati Deshpande is Senior editor at The Times of India, Mumbai, where she has been covering courts for over a decade. She is passionate about law and works towards enlightening people about their statutory, legal and fundamental rights. She makes it her job to decipher for the public the truth, be it in an intricate civil dispute or in a gruesome criminal case.
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