Kalyan: About 20 new prisoners have been tested positive for Covid-19 in Adharwadi prison in Kalyan.
This detainee was recently sent to prison after the judge’s order in a different case.
After testing positive, everything was sent to the Thane Civil Hospital for treatment.
The source says that all patients have mild infection symptoms.
Prison authorities said that before they always maintained Covid-19 patients in the center of quarantine arranged in a private school near the prison.
However, after school reopened in the city, the authorities ordered two barracks in the prison themselves where they first did a Covid-19 test against the new inmates and then sent it to the regular barracks.
Officials said that many new prisoners stored in two barracks had undergone Covid-19 and 20 tests including positively tested.
20 new prisoners at Adharwadi + VE prison tests
