According to local media reports in South Africa, on January 8th local time, after 87 prisoners tested positive for COVID-19, the Helderstroom prison in the town of Caliden in the Western Cape Province of South Africa has been urgently blockaded.
In addition to the 87 inmates infected with the novel coronavirus, five prison guards have reportedly tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
Singhabako Nzumalo, spokesman of the South African Ministry of Prisons, said that it is most critical at this stage to take immediate prevention and control measures to prevent other prison guards and prisoners from being exposed to the novel coronavirus
Who are currently quarantined and their close contacts are being tracked so that they can be as soon as possible. Stop the further spread of the novel coronavirus.
