1.5% of the total prison population in Sri Lanka exposed to COVID-19

Sri Lanka's State Minister of Prison Reforms and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation, Dr. Shudarshini Fernandopulle instructed the prison officials to draw-up a mechanism that will direct all new inmates to a quarantine process and then be subject to PCR tests, before being allowed to be placed inside prisons

Nov 18, 2020
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Sri Lanka's State Minister of Prison Reforms and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation, Dr. Shudarshini Fernandopulle instructed the prison officials to draw-up a mechanism that will direct all new inmates to a quarantine process and then be subject to PCR tests, before being allowed to be placed inside prisons.

The objective of this program is to prevent COVID-19 infected prisoners from entering the prisons in Sri Lanka.

At a meeting with the prison officials, the State Minister had stressed the urgent need to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in prisons as at present around 1.5% of the total prison population have been exposed to COVID-19.

https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/11/17/1-5-of-the-total-prison-population-in-sri-lanka-exposed-to-covid-19/

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