Bengaluru: Days after 121 prisoners had been shifted from Bengaluru to the neighbouring Ramanagara district jail, main to a serious controversy, two of them have examined constructive for COVID-19.
Besides, all of the prisoners had been reportedly saved in a really small jail, and there are possibilities that extra amongst them may check constructive within the coming days.
Ramanagara is one of the eight districts in Karnataka that had not seen a single coronavirus case till now, regardless of being shut to the capital metropolis and falling en route the 2 purple zone districts of Bengaluru and Mysure.
Earlier this week, locals of Padarayanapura, a ward recognized as a containment zone by the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), had gone on a rampage objecting to the way in which contact-tracing was being finished.
The individuals who took to the streets questioned the authorities’ determination to shift ‘secondary contacts’ to authorities quarantine centres once they may very well be quarantined at their properties.
There was additionally anger about non-availability of rations and necessities to many households within the containment zone, a densely populated space in west Bengaluru.
While preliminary studies mentioned healthcare staff and police personnel had been attacked, police later mentioned there was no damage amongst officers who had gone to successfully implement the sealing of the ward.
However, the federal government had determined to take motion in opposition to those that had tried to disrupt their work, and lots of of these taken into custody had been moved to the neighbouring district in a bid to preserve them away from town.
At the time, former chief minister and senior JD(S) chief HD Kumaraswamy, whose spouse Anitha is the MLA from Ramanagara, had objected to shifting prisoners from a containment zone to a district that had not registered any COVID-19 case.
He had additionally identified that the Ramanagara jail is a really small one.
“They must shift all the prisoners from Ramanagara immediately. Else, I shall start a major protest,” Kumaraswamy wrote on Twitter late on Thursday evening when information of the 2 prisoners’ Covid studies got here to mild.
“The Government’s hasty decision to move them to Ramanagara has led to this situation, when the district was one of the eight districts that had not a single case. Now, it has to face up to the possibility of many cases emerging, many people being exposed to the virus,” he additional wrote, including that each one employees, together with cleansing and cooking employees, on the jail should instantly be taken care of.
However, it could not simply be the jail employees, numbering about 20-25, alone who may have the “care”.
On Monday, when these prisoners had been moved to Ramanagara, the district deputy commissioner (collector), the superintendent of police, the district well being officer and some different officers had been additionally current.
A police crew had additionally helped within the switch of the prisoners from Bengaluru to Ramanagara. The district now has to take a name on what number of of the officers want to be remoted, and whether or not their households and maybe neighbourhoods too want to be quarantined, contemplating the pace at which the virus spreads.
Besides, for the reason that jail has only some cells, about 14 to 15 prisoners had been housed in every cell. While the 2 who’ve examined constructive have been moved to a authorities hospital in Bengaluru now, there’s a chance that extra could check constructive in coming days.
A quantity of city municipality officers too had visited the jail on Thursday to distribute masks and sanitisers. These officers and their households too could have to be quarantined. A choice on that is probably by Friday.
The whole episode could show too pricey for the state – that had prided in bringing the outbreak beneath management.
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