Greene County jail closes kitchen temporarily amid COVID-19 positives, lack of workers – Fréttir – Moberly Monitor-Index – Moberly, MO

The Greene County jail has closed its kitchen quickly amid optimistic coronavirus assessments amongst inmate staff.

Á fimmtudagskvöldið, þrír fangar sem unnu að því að undirbúa og afhenda máltíðir fyrir u.þ.b 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 “gjaldgengur” að vera starfsfólk, fangelsið lokaði eldhúsinu fljótt. 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 mengað meðal þessara fangelsaða

The coronavirus will not be believed to be transmitted through surfaces or meals. Sem öndunarfæraveira, it primarily spreads by respiratory droplets launched from individuals’s nostril or mouth after they breathe, hósta, speak or sneeze.

Engu að síður, the brand new infections among the many inmate staff and others introduced the overall variety of optimistic coronavirus infections amongst incarcerated individuals to 98 frá og með föstudagseftirmiðdegi, í samræmi við upphaf upplýsinga.

Af þessum, einn fangi var á sjúkrahúsinu, 31 individuals had been displaying signs and 69 hafði jafnað sig.

Þessar tölur treysta ekki á einstaklinga sem hafa verið hleypt af stokkunum.

However a report of testing numbers obtained by a public info request confirmed that as of Aug. 31, 110 inmates had examined optimistic, og 82 hafði jafnað sig. Fangelsið hafði lagt fram 233 úttektir frá og með þeim degi.

Frá og með föstudeginum, the jail information launch acknowledged 51 jail workers had examined optimistic, og 37 hafði jafnað sig. Frá og með ágúst. 31, 190 starfsmenn hafi verið skoðaðir.

Virus spreading by ‘trailer jail,’ mismunandi þjónustu

Allar þessar tölur koma nokkrum mánuðum eftir að tilkynnt var um aðal kransæðaveirutilfellið í Greene County “kerrufangelsi,” which sits adjoining to the primary constructing and homes as much as 108 einstaklingar í opnu, húsnæði í kojustíl.

Most people within the trailer finally examined optimistic.

Eftir þessar reynslusögur, 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.

Jim Arnott sýslumaður, fyrir hans helming, 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. Við höfum bókað 7,000 individuals in since March and we have been in a position to mitigate it up till August. Það kom öllum á óvart að við höfum náð þessu langt.”

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