Penjara Greene County menutup dapur di tengah wabah virus corona
The Greene County jail has closed its kitchen quickly amid constructive coronavirus assessments amongst inmate staff.
Pada Kamis malam, tiga orang narapidana yang bekerja keras menyiapkan dan mengantarkan makanan untuk para tahanan 850 individuals incarcerated on the jail informed the Information-Chief that they had examined constructive for the virus after feeling sick for a number of days.
In response to these constructive assessments in addition to an absence of individuals “memenuhi syarat” untuk menjadi staf, penjara dengan cepat menutup dapur. Inmates have been being fed with ready meals from one other contractor, Greene County Sheriff’s Division spokesman Deputy Jason Winston mentioned.
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“Inmate trustees are an enormous element to meals preparation in our jail,” dia menyebutkan. “We at the moment wouldn’t have sufficient eligible inmates for trustee assignments, so we’ve got quickly closed our jail kitchen.”
98 terkontaminasi di antara mereka yang dipenjara
The coronavirus shouldn’t be believed to be transmitted through surfaces or meals. Sebagai virus pernapasan, it primarily spreads via respiratory droplets launched from individuals’s nostril or mouth after they breathe, batuk, discuss or sneeze.

Namun, the brand new infections among the many inmate staff and others introduced the overall variety of constructive coronavirus infections amongst incarcerated individuals to 98 pada Jumat sore, in response to a information launch.
Dari jumlah tersebut, satu narapidana berada di dalam rumah sakit, 31 individuals have been exhibiting signs and 69 telah pulih.
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Angka-angka ini tidak dihitung berdasarkan individu yang telah diluncurkan.
However a report of testing numbers obtained via a public data request confirmed that as of Aug. 31, 110 inmates had examined constructive, Dan 82 telah pulih. Penjara telah menyerah 233 penilaian pada tanggal tersebut.
Pada hari Jumat, the jail information launch said 51 jail workers had examined constructive, Dan 37 telah pulih. Pada bulan Agustus. 31, 190 pekerja telah diperiksa.
Virus spreading via ‘trailer jail,’ layanan yang berbeda
Semua angka ini terjadi beberapa bulan setelah kasus virus corona pertama dilaporkan di Greene County “penjara trailer,” which sits adjoining to the principle constructing and homes as much as 108 individu secara terbuka, perumahan bergaya bertingkat.
Most people within the trailer finally examined constructive.
Mengikuti pengalaman ini, inmates and their members of the family informed the Information-Chief they hadn’t been supplied masks till after the primary case was reported and famous it was practically unattainable contained in the jail to follow bodily distancing or take different precautions advisable to maintain the virus at bay.
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The virus finally unfold to different areas inside the principle jail constructing, although the extent to which it has unfold continues to be unknown.
Sheriff Jim Arnott, untuk separuhnya, mentioned in an interview final week he was doing the perfect he can, noting it is extremely tough to cease the virus from spreading because the jail books in a whole bunch of individuals every month.
“You possibly can solely do what you are able to do,” dia menyebutkan. “We have carried out a very good job of protecting it out as of this level. Kami telah memesan 7,000 individuals in since March and we have been capable of mitigate it up till August. Semua orang kagum kami telah berhasil sejauh ini.”
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