50 prisoners test Covid +ve in Maha

Akola: Fifty prisoners of the Akola district jail and 28 other people here in Maharashtra tested positive for coronavirus on Sunday, health authorities said. The district jail currently has nearly 300 prisoners, a jail official said, adding that the facility has not taken in any new prisoner in the recent past. On Sunday morning, reports of 78 people, including 50 male prisoners of the district jail, came out positive, an official said. With this, the total number of coronavirus cases in the district has gone up to 1,498, he said. Earlier on June 24, 18 prisoners of the district jail tested positive for coronavirus.