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

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

Pada malam Khamis, tiga banduan yang bertungkus-lumus bersiap dan menghantar makanan untuk kira-kira 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 “layak” menjadi kakitangan, penjara segera menutup dapur. 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 tercemar di kalangan tahanan ini

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

Namun begitu, the brand new infections among the many inmate staff and others introduced the overall variety of optimistic coronavirus infections amongst incarcerated individuals to 98 setakat petang Jumaat, in accordance with a information launch.

Daripada jumlah ini, seorang banduan berada di dalam hospital, 31 individuals had been displaying signs and 69 telah pulih.

Nombor ini tidak bergantung kepada individu yang telah dilancarkan.

However a report of testing numbers obtained by a public info request confirmed that as of Aug. 31, 110 inmates had examined optimistic, dan 82 telah pulih. Penjara telah menyerahkan 233 penilaian pada tarikh tersebut.

Setakat hari Jumaat, the jail information launch acknowledged 51 jail workers had examined optimistic, dan 37 telah pulih. Setakat Ogos. 31, 190 pekerja telah diperiksa.

Virus spreading by ‘trailer jail,’ perkhidmatan yang berbeza

Semua nombor ini datang beberapa bulan selepas kes koronavirus utama dilaporkan di Greene County “penjara treler,” which sits adjoining to the primary constructing and homes as much as 108 individu secara terbuka, perumahan gaya dua tingkat.

Most people within the trailer finally examined optimistic.

Mengikuti pengalaman ini, 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.

Syerif Jim Arnott, untuk separuhnya, 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. Kami telah menempah 7,000 individuals in since March and we have been in a position to mitigate it up till August. Semua orang kagum bahawa kami telah berjaya sejauh ini.”

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