Greene County jail closes kitchen quickly amid COVID-19 positives, lack of staff – Cov ntaub ntawv – Moberly Monitor-Index – Moberly, MO
The Greene County jail has closed its kitchen quickly amid optimistic coronavirus assessments amongst inmate staff.
Hnub Thursday hmo ntuj, peb tus neeg raug kaw uas ua haujlwm tau npaj thiab xa zaub mov rau qhov kwv yees 850 individuals incarcerated on the jail informed the Information-Chief that they had examined optimistic for the virus after feeling sick for a number of days.
In response to these optimistic assessments in addition to a scarcity of individuals “tsim nyog” los ua neeg ua haujlwm, lub tsev kaw neeg ceev ceev kaw lub chav ua noj. Inmates had been being fed with ready meals from one other contractor, Greene County Sheriff’s Division spokesman Deputy Jason Winston stated.
“Inmate trustees are an enormous part to meals preparation in our jail,” he stated. “We at the moment would not have sufficient eligible inmates for trustee assignments, so we’ve quickly closed our jail kitchen.”
98 kis kab mob ntawm cov neeg raug kaw no
The coronavirus will not be believed to be transmitted through surfaces or meals. Raws li tus kab mob ua pa, it primarily spreads by respiratory droplets launched from individuals’s nostril or mouth after they breathe, hnoos, speak or sneeze.
Txawm li cas los xij, the brand new infections among the many inmate staff and others introduced the overall variety of optimistic coronavirus infections amongst incarcerated individuals to 98 raws li hnub Friday tav su, in accordance with a information launch.
Ntawm no, ib tug neeg raug kaw nyob hauv tsev kho mob, 31 individuals had been displaying signs and 69 tau zoo lawm.
Cov lej no tsis tso siab rau cov tib neeg uas tau tso tawm.
However a report of testing numbers obtained by a public info request confirmed that as of Aug. 31, 110 inmates had examined optimistic, thiab 82 tau zoo lawm. Lub tsev kaw neeg tau xa 233 kev soj ntsuam raws li hnub tim.
Raws li hnub Friday, the jail information launch acknowledged 51 jail workers had examined optimistic, thiab 37 tau zoo lawm. As of Aug. 31, 190 cov neeg ua haujlwm tau raug tshuaj xyuas.
Virus spreading by ‘trailer jail,’ cov kev pabcuam sib txawv
Tag nrho cov lej no tuaj ob peb hlis tom qab thawj kis tus kabmob coronavirus tau tshaj tawm hauv Greene County “trailer raug kaw,” which sits adjoining to the primary constructing and homes as much as 108 cov neeg nyob rau hauv qhib, bunk-style tsev nyob.
Most people within the trailer finally examined optimistic.
Ua raws li cov kev paub no, inmates and their relations informed the Information-Chief they hadn’t been supplied masks till after the primary case was reported and famous it was almost inconceivable contained in the jail to observe bodily distancing or take different precautions advisable to maintain the virus at bay.
The virus finally unfold to different areas inside the primary jail constructing, although the extent to which it has unfold remains to be unknown.
Tus tub ceev xwm Jim Arnott, rau nws ib nrab, stated in an interview final week he was doing the perfect he can, noting it is extremely troublesome to cease the virus from spreading because the jail books in lots of of individuals every month.
“You may solely do what you are able to do,” he stated. “We have finished a great job of protecting it out as of this level. Peb tau booked 7,000 individuals in since March and we have been in a position to mitigate it up till August. Txhua tus xav tsis thoob tias peb tau ua nws nyob deb.”
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