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La Jornada – Five inmates of the Santiaguito prison test positive for Covid-19

Toluca. The Undersecretary of Penitentiary Control of the State of Mexico reported on Tuesday afternoon that five women deprived of their liberty in the Santiaguito state prison, in Almoloya de Juárez, tested positive for Covid-19, so they had to be isolated immediately from the rest of the prison population to prevent the outbreak from spreading in this place.

An information card detailed that the infected women received immediate medical attention and are under observation.

The agency explained that during the week tests will continue to be applied to the inmates who were in contact with the women who contracted the SARS-CoV-2 virus, in addition to the vulnerable groups that are in this prison, in addition to the women in prison in the company of their minor children.

Of the five cases detected, one of the women is in a vulnerable situation and according to the protocol was transferred to a hospital to receive adequate medical attention, while the other four are in good health.

Last year, one of the most recognized inmates in this prison, Guadalupe Buendía, alias “La Loba”, a former social leader and subdivision in Chimalhuacán, died as a result of Covid.

The Security Secretariat ordered Prison Control to reinforce the sanitary fence, provide more supplies and suspend all non-essential activities of the module where these infections were detected. Family visits will also be temporarily suspended, notwithstanding the items for personal use and hygiene, as well as the supplies that their families carry, will not be suspended and will be subject to current regulations.

Telephone calls will also be kept for less than five minutes while the suspension of the family visit continues and the “video call” program will be reinforced.

The Undersecretariat of Penitentiary Control has estimated to carry out at least 300 covid detection tests, of which it has an advance of 20 percent.


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