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1,219 more cases found in 3 prisons
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Authorities stepping up testing and quarantine but overcrowding remains biggest challenge
published : 15 May 2021 at 19:23 (Bangkok Post file photo)
The Corrections Department has found another 1,219 people infected with Covid-19, six of them in critical condition, in three prisons in Greater Bangkok.
The figure brings to nearly 5,000 the number of confirmed coronavirus cases that the public has been told about in the country’s badly overcrowded prisons.
The latest discovery came from 100% active case finding at Klong Prem Central Prison, where 510 infections were found, Bangkok Remand Prison (88) and Thonburi Remand Prison (621), according to a department briefing on Saturday.
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It is reported that yet another anti-government political prisoners has the virus. According to lawyer Noraset Nanongtoom, his client Panupong Jadnok has tested positive while in prison.
Panupong has been refused bail several times since being detained on 8 March 2021for lese majeste and other charges resulting from an anti-government/anti-monarchy rally on 19-20 September 2020.
And, he’s only one among thousands who are now infected in a hopelessly underfunded and overcrowded prison system.
After activist Panusaya Sithijirawattanakul was bailed and revealed she had contracted the virus in prison, Corrections Department director-general Aryut Sinthoppan was forced to finally confirm that there were 2,835 infections in two Bangkok prisons.