SINGAPORE (CNA) – About 5,000 inmates, staff and partners at Changi Prison will be tested for COVID-19 over the next few days after a cook working there was confirmed to have the infection. All inmates’ face-to-face visits and tele-visits will also be replaced by phone calls with effect from May 17 until further notice, the […]
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File photo of a day room in Changi Prison. (Photo: Amir Yusof)
16 May 2021 10:37AM (Updated:
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SINGAPORE: An inmate who contracted COVID-19 worked in a prison kitchen and supported the day-to-day preparation of meals, the Singapore Prison Service (SPS) said on Sunday (May 16).
The inmate, listed by the Health Ministry as Case 63253, was tested for the virus after a cook working there tested positive on May 13. The inmate’s COVID-19 test returned positive the following day.
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The 32-year-old inmate was transferred to the quarantine centre at Selarang Park Complex, a new prison facility, on the same day. He is being monitored by medical staff and is currently well and asymptomatic, SPS said.
The Changi Prison inmate who tested positive for COVID-19 is "currently well" and his four cellmates have tested negative for the coronavirus, said the Singapore Prison Service (SPS) on Sunday (16 May).
SINGAPORE - Four cellmates of the 32-year-old inmate with Covid-19 have tested negative and will be tested again, said the Singapore Prison Service (SPS).
They were immediately transferred to separate, isolated cells after the inmate tested positive for the virus, the SPS said in a statement on Sunday (May 16).
Meanwhile, 1,050 inmates, staff and partners who had been to an area of Changi Prison Complex have been tested for Covid-19 after the 32-year-old was found to have the virus on Saturday. More than 900 of them are inmates.
The SPS said on Sunday that it has completed mass polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing of the inmates, staff and partners, who had been to Institution A5 between May 10 and May 12.
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SINGAPORE: About 5,000 inmates, staff and partners at Changi Prison will be tested for COVID-19 over the next few days after a chef working there was confirmed to have the infection.
All inmates face-to-face visits and tele-visits will also be replaced by phone calls with effect from May 17 until further notice, the Singapore Prison Service (SPS) said on Saturday (May 15).