Earlier this week, the official tally stood at 144 cases, with one official having lost his life to the Covid-19 disease by Monday night.
An example, but not an exception, is the Pollsmoor Remand Detention Facility which, according to health monitoring publicationThese are prisoners awaiting trial and are thus theoretically"innocent until proven guilty".
He says a “mass infection” in our prison population could have “catastrophic consequences for the public healthcare system, especially if prisoners suffer serious symptoms and require intensive care".
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