The Prisons department has ordered EMCO lockdown measures at Penang prison.
The cases are classified as the Remand Cluster, which began with an 85-year-old inmate at the remand centre who was found dead on Oct 5. State health director Dr Asmayani Khalib said affected inmates are warded at a makeshift treatment centre set up at two buildings within the prison complex, except for three serious cases which are now warded at the nearby Penang Hospital.
Chow had earlier called for an enhanced movement control order or EMCO to be in force in the prison and a staff quarters facing the prison, which houses 318 people.were already in place, prison director Roslan Mohamed said the EMCO was self-enforced on the orders of the commissioner-general of prisons.
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