The department of correctional services says 12,328 prison officials have been vaccinated. Stock photo.More than 68,500 prison inmates have received their Covid-19 vaccine jabs, the department of correctional services said on Wednesday.Correctional services officials are not being left behind, with 12,328 vaccinated to date.
“The current standard operating procedures have enforced a necessary barrier in the form of a protection wall between the general inmate population and the newly admitted people who are placed in the isolation sites until cleared,” he said.“There is no doubt these [nonpharmaceutical] measures have saved many lives. However, it became clear that prevention measures alone will never be sufficient, hence the vaccination drive.
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