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Mozambique: 70 Covid-19 cases detested in prisons between 1 January and 18 February – SERNAP
12:05 CAT | 21 Feb 2021
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The national prison service (SERNAP) said on Friday that, between 1 January and 18 February, 70 cases of Covid-19 were detected among prisoners and prison staff.
At a Maputo press conference, the SERNAP National Director for Health Care, Cemilde Anli, said the first cases had been detected in August last year.
She thus contradicted the government spokesperson, Deputy Justice Minister Filimao Suaze, who declared, on 4 February, that there was no contamination in the country’s prisons.
Anli said SERNAP is now imposing obligatory quarantine or isolation on any new entries into the prisons. Any citizen suspected of carrying the virus is immediately isolated and the district health services are informed.
She added that, of the 19,000 people currently held in Mozambican prisons, only 8,000 have beds. The situation has been worsened by the police arrests of citizens violating the Covid-19 prevention rules, particularly the curfew in force in the Greater Maputo Metropolitan Area between 21.00 and 04.00.
Anli said that, since 1 January, an extra 3,000 people had entered the prison system, many of whom were curfew breakers.
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Source: AIM
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