Covid-19 positive prison warder ‘nowhere to be found’ via TheCitizen_News
Correctional Services officials work without masks during Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola's launch of a Covid-19 screening campaign at the Johannesburg Prison, 8 April 2020, and to conduct an inspection at the Johannesburg Management Area to ensure that inmates and officials adhere to the gazetted directions issued to address, prevent and combat the spread of Covid-19 in prisons.
A prison official from Johannesburg Correctional Services, also known as Sun City, is nowhere to be found after he recently tested positive for Covid-19. Prison staff are now concerned, as officials have been sharing an overloaded bus with their infected colleague every day, he said. “We didn’t comply with social distancing in the bus. It would be packed and we’d even be holding on to the overhead handrails. It was only today that we were provided with an extra bus to ease the load and try to socially distance.”
“This is so scary because it means we could be positive. We meet with inmates at work and they don’t get visitors so it’s scary that they could get this virus due to negligence from our employer. We’ve complained about this and they didn’t do anything. Now, it could be too late,” she said.
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