35 positive arrows confined to COVID-19 in Ponce

The Department of Correction and Rehabilitation informed that 35 employees of module 59 of the institution Ponce 676 were positive about COVID-19.

Agreed with a press release from the agency, 34 people are asymptomatic and one presents live symptoms.

The agency indicates that Correctional Physician, undertaking to increase the health of the correctional population, carried out 452 molecular tests in 161 tests and custodian employees, and hoped for the results.

The secretariat designated by Ana Escobar recorded that as soon as the previous occasions the agency activated the protocol was valid and that all affected is in Islam by the proximity 14 days and awaits by medical staff of the institution.

“Department of Epidemiology and Market Surveillance, Correctional Health and Correctional Physician staff work proactively to control the spread of the virus, while carrying out the screening process. It is important to note that the nearest Monday, 18 January, will immediately receive the vacancies we initiate the vacancy process in the Ponce Correctional Complex. This process includes the Ponce and Villalba Social Treatment Centers. This vacancy calendar extends until the 22nd of January, ”said the official.

As additional members within the institution, the cancellation of orders from Ponce 676 will be canceled.

About visits to correctional institutions, the secretariat that they mismas están canceladas de acuerdo con la orden ejecutiva vigente and as a means of protection. “Once the public has been vacated, we will review the recommendations of the marketers and evaluate the current directory,” he concluded.

Previously, Correction informed that in the Cárcel de Bayamón hubo a brote of COVID-19 between 167 confinados.