Jaipur district jail reports 119 coronavirus cases

Yash Goyal
Our Correspondent 
Jaipur, May 16

Jaipur district jail reported over 100 coronavirus patients on Saturday, days after an inmate tested positive in jail.

The jail accounted for 119 of Rajasthan’s 213 positive cases. The superintendent of the jail was among those infected, authorities said.

An inmate from Jamawramgarh who had previously tested positive is believed to have infected those in the jail. He was brought to the jail on April 10. All those who tested positive, including the superintendent, are in a COVID Care Centre set up within the jail campus, DGP-Jail NRK Reddy said.  

Most of those who tested positive in the jail are asymptomatic, the official said.

“Some 48 people had been reported until Saturday morning, but we tracked down those who were granted nail in the last fortnight and tested them,” the official said, adding that the jail had followed social distancing protocol.

He also insisted that the inmate who had tested positive before had gone through the mandated 21-day quarantine when he was brought into the jail.

Meanwhile, Jaipur reported 12 other cases. Jaipur’s total count on Saturday came to 131.

Dungarpur (27), Sirohi (10), Udaipur (9) Jodhpur (7), Ajmer (7), Bikaner (1), Bhilwara (7), Nagaur (3), Tonk (3), Sikjar (1), Pali (1), Jhunjhunu (1), Chittorgarj (1), Bharatpur (1), Barmer (1) and other state sample  (1) made up the rest of Rajasthan’s count on Saturday.

This takes Rajasthan’s infection tally to 4,960 on Saturday. 

Jaipur also reported one death---a development that takes the state’s death toll to 126.  

Some 384 migrants who recently returned to the state are part of the states infection tally.

Meanwhile, 42 BSF jawans have been recovered and were released from Jodhpur's AIIMS on Friday. 

Jaipur has the most deaths at 68---a number that includes four people from Uttar Pradesh. Jodhpur (17), Kota (10), Ajmer( 5), Nagaur (3), Pali (3), Alwar(2), Karauli (2), Bikaner (2), Bharatpur (2), Bhilwara (2), Sikar (2),  Chittorgarh (2), and Jalore (1), Churu (1),  Banswara (1), Pratapgarh (1), Sawaimadhopur (1)and Tonk (1) make up the rest of the death toll.