MALE, Jun 12 (NNN-PSM) – Maldives amped up anti-pandemic measures in prisons, in an effort to prevent COVID-19 from spreading in the prison system, state media reported here yesterday.
The President’s Office Spokesperson, Mohamed Mabrook Azeez, was quoted as saying that, prisons are frequently disinfected and inmate temperatures are checked on a daily basis.
Azeez said, inmates who exhibit symptoms of COVID-19 are isolated in separate cells. He said that, 186 cases of COVID-19 have been discovered in prisons so far.
Medical units have been established in all prisons in Maldives to attend to COVID-19 related issues, Azeez said.
A total of 69,536 cases of COVID-19 have been detected in Maldives so far, while over 191 deaths have been reported due to the pandemic.– NNN-PSM
