The federal ombudsman on Friday revealed that hundreds of inmates across Pakistan were suffering from the deadly coronavirus.

According to Express, the federal ombudsman submitted the eighth progress report on the suo motu notice by the Supreme Court on the plight of prisoners in jails. The report was related to the predicament of women prisoners.

The report revealed that the highest number of 291 coronavirus positive prisoners were in Sindh jails whereas 126 inmates were in jails of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), 80 in Balochistan and three in Punjab.

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