Thiruvananthapuram: More than 350 prisoners have been found infected in the Thiruvananthapuram Central Jail in the past week due to the coronavirus epidemic and one of the murder accused died of infection on Sunday. Jail Superintendent Santosh S. In the last one week, 359 people, including one prisoner, were confirmed to be infected, out of which 145 cases of infection were reported on Sunday alone. He said that three patients have been admitted to the hospital and others have been kept in a special separate habitat area inside the jail.
He said, “Manikandan, a prisoner under consideration in a murder case, died at the Medical College Hospital here. He was imprisoned here since 2016. He was hospitalized on 10 August. ” Since he was admitted to the hospital, the authorities have been conducting a prison inmate investigation. The prison houses more than 970 inmates.
