Panic grips Basti jail as 120 test corona positive

LUCKNOW: Panic gripped the UP’s Basti Jail again when 120 inmates, including 3 officials, tested positive for Covid belying tall claims of the Yogi government it has nearly contained community spread of the virus. All inmates have been quarantined in a jail barrack, which has been converted into an L-1 Covid Hospital at the panic-stricken Basti District Jail. A team of doctors has been deployed from the Basti District Hospital with PPE kits, emergency medicines and oxygen cylinders to monitor the condition of inmates.