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TimesLIVE reported on Friday that the number of Covid-19 cases among prisoners and Department of Correctional Services (DCS) officials was fast approaching the 100 mark.
DCS spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo confirmed that there were nine new cases of the illness confirmed, all in respect of departmental officials. This meant that there were 94 cases in total, 56 of them inmates. The good news was that all of the 27 inmates tested at the St Alban's prison in the Eastern Cape — where officials have tested positive — were negative. Detailing the nine new cases, Nxumalo said that one official was at the Kutama Sinthumule private facility in Limpopo, four at the Warmbokveld facility in the Western Cape, and that two additional cases were reported at both the East London and Worcester facilities, which had already seen positive cases. East London remains the only correctional facility among SA’s 243 centres to have inmates testing positive for Covid-19.
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