77 prisoners and 26 staff found Corona positive in Mumbai's Arthur jail
77 prisoners and 26 staff found Corona positive in Mumbai's Arthur jail
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Mumbai: Coronavirus has not reduced its havoc in Mumbai. Such cases are coming out one after the other which are surprising. The coronavirus patients in Mumbai are not taking the name of being less. According to the recently reported news, apart from the common people, now the infection of corona is also spreading rapidly in the police department. Recently, Covid-19 patients have been detected in Arthur Road Jail here.

There have been 103 Corona positive cases in Arthur Jail. It has 77 prisoners and 26 prison staff. According to the information received, the prisoners have been admitted to GT Hospital and St. George's Hospital on Friday morning. The staff of the jail have received the news of reaching the hospital separately. Arthur Road Jail is the oldest jail in Mumbai and it is right in front of Kasturba Hospital.

Kasturba Hospital has been made the nodal hospital of Covid-19 in Mumbai and the jail currently has 2 thousand undertrial prisoners, although its capacity is only 800 inmates. Not only this, but there is also a problem of mutual distance between the prisoners in the jail because more prisoners are closed here. Rana Kapoor, the founder of Yes Bank and the accused in this case, is also lodged in Arthur Road Jail. Tests of more than 200 people have been taken in the jail so far, in which 103 people have come positive.

On Wednesday, the report of a 45-year-old prisoner came positive on Wednesday and this prisoner is lodged in jail under the Narcotics Act. According to Maharashtra Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, 77 prisoners and 26 jail officials have so far been found to be Corona positive. Recently he said, there are more than 2800 prisoners in Arthur Road Jail. A corona case was found in a barrack in the jail. After this, all the prisoners and staff of the jail were subjected to corona investigation. The report confirmed that 77 prisoners and 26 prison officials were found positive.

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