Explosion in Covid positive women in Nabha jail

A new trend is beginning to develop in which inmates in Punjab’s jails are catching Corona. What could be the change that has triggered this development?

Punjab India Prison

Sources have informed True Scoop News that 44 women in Nabha prison have tested Covid +ve.

The authorities are opining that of these 44 women, two have been visiting court premises regarding their hearing in the Court of Law a lot recently.

They believe that they must have contracted the menacing pandemic somewhere outside the prison premises.

The prison authorities are deciding that even more testing and even stricter following of the guidelines of the government regarding Corona will be implemented.

Also read: Punjab's Covid restrictions extended till April 10

In other prisons in Punjab, the latest numbers are as follows:

Gurdaspur has 104, Ropar has 82, Kapurthala has 50, and Mukstar has 21 positive cases of Covid.

All in all, experts claim that from the time in-person trials in the Courts were restarted, the Covid situation inside the prisons has destabilised.


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