Cebu Governor Gwen Garcia announced on Wednesday that 18 inmates from the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center tested positive for COVID-19. The jail has also recorded its first coronavirus-related death — a 44-year-old male detainee from Catmon, Cebu.
Garcia said that the 18 inmates were already isolated from the general jail population even before their test results came because they exhibited influenza-like illness, prompting jail officials to isolate them as part of protocol. Upon initial investigation, Garcia said a male administrative staff from the jail facility could have been the source of the infection.
The male staff, who was later found positive for COVID-19, has defied the order to stay-in at the jail facility instead of going home daily. It was reported that the staff continued to go to his house in Barangay Sambag Dos in Cebu City.The Lapu-Lapu City jail on Wednesday also recorded one jail officer contracting the virus.
CPDRC's neighboring facility, Cebu City Jail, has already recorded a total of 212 infections of COVID-19.There are a total of 631 cases of COVID-19 in Cebu, as recorded by the Department of Health Central Visayas.
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