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With about 30 inmates of Mysuru Central jail testing positive for COVID-19 so far during the second wave, the authorities have set in place containment measures including releasing eligible convicts on parole.
Superintendent of Mysuru Central jail Divyashree said the infection had been noticed among new admissions and patients returning from hospitals after treatment of other ailments.
Hence, the jail authorities have now created a separate quarantine facility, where new admissions and patients returning from hospitals will be kept till RTPCR test shows negative. “Only if they test negative, we will send them to barracks,” she said. All COVID-19 positive inmates had been shifted to the COVID-19 Care Centre at Metagalli in Mysuru.