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In confirming the development Friday night, Minister of Home Affairs Wilfred Abrahams said the problem was not COVID-related.
But when asked to respond to a report that claimed that Nurse had suffered a heart attack, Abrahams said it would be inappropriate for him to divulge the prison chief’s medical business, adding that the superintendent himself would do that as he saw fit at the right time.
The minister was also questioned whether Lt Col Nurse’s ailment would affect his ability to continue running the sole adult penal institution as Superintendent of Prisons. He has held the post for the past 20 years.
Dodds cluster now beaten, say authorities
Article by February 2, 2021
The COVID-19 outbreak at HMP Dodds is no more, the Government COVID Communications Unit declared Monday.
The crisis at the island’s lone penal institution has been brought under control with only seven positive cases presently active, according to the authorities, who said that the island’s largest COVID-19 cluster had been neutralized.
At its peak, the cluster at the St Philip prison totalled 363 infected people – 85 prison officers, 261 inmates and 17 staff members.
The communications unit said in a statement: “Today, only seven COVID-positive persons remain to be medically discharged. Operations at the prison have so returned to normalcy, that Virtual Court will resume from the Prison effective today, Monday, February 1.”