Greene County jail closes kitchen temporarily amid COVID-19 positives, lack of workers – hírek – Moberly Monitor-Index – Moberly, MO

The Greene County jail has closed its kitchen quickly amid optimistic coronavirus assessments amongst inmate staff.

Csütörtök este, három fogvatartott, akik azon fáradoztak, hogy felkészüljenek és ételt szállítsanak a durván 850 individuals incarcerated on the jail informed the Information-Chief that they had examined optimistic for the virus after feeling sick for a number of days.

In response to these optimistic assessments in addition to a scarcity of individuals “jogosult” személyzetnek lenni, a börtön gyorsan bezárta a konyhát. Inmates had been being fed with ready meals from one other contractor, Greene County Sheriff’s Division spokesman Deputy Jason Winston stated.

“Inmate trustees are an enormous part to meals preparation in our jail,” he stated. “We at the moment would not have sufficient eligible inmates for trustee assignments, so we’ve quickly closed our jail kitchen.”

98 szennyezett a bebörtönzöttek között

The coronavirus will not be believed to be transmitted through surfaces or meals. Légúti vírusként, it primarily spreads by respiratory droplets launched from individuals’s nostril or mouth after they breathe, köhögés, speak or sneeze.

Mindazonáltal, the brand new infections among the many inmate staff and others introduced the overall variety of optimistic coronavirus infections amongst incarcerated individuals to 98 péntek délutántól, in accordance with a information launch.

Ezek közül, az egyik fogvatartott a kórházban volt, 31 individuals had been displaying signs and 69 felépült.

Ezek a számok nem az elindított személyekre vonatkoznak.

However a report of testing numbers obtained by a public info request confirmed that as of Aug. 31, 110 inmates had examined optimistic, és 82 felépült. A börtön beadta 233 értékelések ezen a napon.

Pénteken, the jail information launch acknowledged 51 jail workers had examined optimistic, és 37 felépült. Aug. 31, 190 dolgozókat megvizsgálták.

Virus spreading by ‘trailer jail,’ különböző szolgáltatások

Mindezek a számok néhány hónappal azután érkeztek, hogy Greene megyében jelentették az elsődleges koronavírus-esetet “pótkocsis börtön,” which sits adjoining to the primary constructing and homes as much as 108 magánszemélyek nyitott, emeletes stílusú ház.

Most people within the trailer finally examined optimistic.

Ezeket a tapasztalatokat követve, inmates and their relations informed the Information-Chief they hadn’t been supplied masks till after the primary case was reported and famous it was almost inconceivable contained in the jail to observe bodily distancing or take different precautions advisable to maintain the virus at bay.

The virus finally unfold to different areas inside the primary jail constructing, although the extent to which it has unfold remains to be unknown.

Jim Arnott seriff, a felének, stated in an interview final week he was doing the perfect he can, noting it is extremely troublesome to cease the virus from spreading because the jail books in lots of of individuals every month.

“You may solely do what you are able to do,” he stated. “We have finished a great job of protecting it out as of this level. lefoglaltuk 7,000 individuals in since March and we have been in a position to mitigate it up till August. Mindenki csodálkozott, hogy idáig eljutottunk.”

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