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Sri Lanka bars prison visits over COVID-19 fears

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Colombo: Sri Lanka on Wednesday barred personal prison visits after an inmate at the country’s largest jail here was tested positive for the coronavirus.
All prisons will stop visitors from seeing inmates with immediate effect until further notice following an inmate tested COVID-19 positive, officials said.
The inmate at the Welikada jail tested positive to COVID-19 on Tuesday.
Over 500 persons at the Welikada prison and its hospital were subjected to PCR tests, health authorities said.
Authorities also quarantined those at a prison in the north-central province’s Polonnaruwa region as the infected inmate was lodged there before being transferred to the Welikada main prison. (PTI)

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