Early cases of COVID-19 are believed to be linked to a live-animal market in Wuhan, China.Pamunkey Regional Jail/Facebookhas rapidly spread through a Virginia jail, infecting at least 120 inmates and 20 staff members despite emergency protocols officials say have been in place since March to prevent the contagion from infiltrating the facility.
The Pamunkey Regional Jail in Hanover, Virginia, is the latest U.S. correctional institution to report an outbreak of coronavirus which has plagued thousands ofOn Wednesday, officials at the Pamunkey jail announced that 120 of the 380 inmates incarcerated at the lockup have tested positive for“It’s virtually impossible to stop outbreaks from occurring within facilities of these types," Dr.
Franck said officials have narrowed the outbreak to a specific pod at the jail, saying about 70% of the 178 inmates in that section have tested positive for the virus and that test results are pending for another dozen inmates.Pamunkey Regional Jail is shown in this undated file photo. While it remains unclear how the virus invaded the 127,000-square-foot facility that has 15 different housing units, James Willett, the jail's superintendent, said two staff members tested positive for COVID-19 on Aug. 20 and a jail contractor tested positive on Aug. 28.
He said the two jail employees and a third staff member who tested positive on Aug. 31 were immediately instructed to self-isolate. Since then, another 17 staff members have tested positive and have gone into self-isolation.
Somebody violated protocols, but what do you expect from a bunch of criminals?
99% recovery rate. So ... keep up the protocols but this ongoing saga of coronavirus flu is not what kills, it's all the other health problems people have. Suicide numbers are higher than virus numbers. Nobody recovers from suicide. Do a story how suicides are more than virus?
did they run out of masks?
That's where covid 19 needs to end up in jail with all these scumbags
So?
They should have worn their masks!
Common Cold & Common Pneumonia Are Both Coronavirus!
What about the masks? Lol
Let them all free would be the democrats plan.
Why does this jail look just like my high school?
There's something wrong with their protocols or keeping to those protocols if all of a sudden it is spreading like wildfire.
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