LEBANON, Ind. (hope) — The Boone County Sheriff's office (BCSO) announced Thursday it is reinstating COVID-19 policies and protocols after a few inmates and two employees recently tested positive for the coronavirus.
Sheriff Michael Nielson known as the unfold of the virus at the BCSO facility "alarming," noting that no inmates had established advantageous for the virus throughout the pandemic unless this month.
"at first of the pandemic in 2020, the Boone County Sheriff's workplace created many COVID-19 guidelines to keep staff, inmates, and citizens safe," the branch said in a press release to information eight. "We had been capable of maintain superb situations with our body of workers at a minimal and had zero situations with inmates. This changed into no longer the norm all over Indiana and the country."
A "gradual open" turned into initiated on the penitentiary in late might also and some, but now not the entire restrictions, have been lifted.
An inmate validated high quality for COVID-19 on July sixteen, the department stated. The inmate become quarantined and masks got to the inmates who shared the block with the COVID-effective inmate and the affected block was positioned in quarantine on July 19.
Two inmates from a different block tested positive on July 23. Coronavirus exams got to inmates in that block and 4 extra inmates verified advantageous.
Coronavirus policies were reinstated after these checks. The department pointed out all inmates had been then provided exams and 128 of 132 of them consented to take the verify. Of those inmates, 25 verified high quality.
"We knew after we begun to open the power back up that we might likely get the virus into our facility however now not to this degree so instantly," Nielson pointed out." i will guarantee you that we are doing every little thing we will to evade the unfold of the virus whereas making certain those infected are receiving the most suitable clinical care feasible and on the equal time attempting to protect our dedicated team of workers it is working in the back of these secured partitions each day.
Two employees have also verified positive for COVID-19. They immediately all started a ten-day quarantine, the branch spoke of.
Nielson is encouraging everyone to masks up and get vaccinated "to give protection to those who are vulnerable and to protect yourself."
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