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COVID-19: 1690 UP jail inmates infected, 70,000 tested so far

Lucknow, Aug 25 (UNI) Additional Chief Secretary Home, Awanish Awasthi here on Tuesday said that Uttar Pradesh jail authorities have undergone 70,000 COVID-19 tests so far, of which 1690 inmates and 59 jail employees were found positive.
He further said that the state has already set up 83 temporary jails in 64 districts where the new prisoners were kept for 14 days in view of the pandemic and later they were shifted to the main jail. All the inmates in the temporary jails were tested for Covid.
Meanwhile, DG Jail Anand Kumar said due to pandemic, no visitors were allowed inside the jail nor the inmates were being brought out from the jail for producing in the Court.
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