Half of the prisoners in quarantine: Corona outbreak in Berlin’s Tegel prison – Berlin
In a workshop at the Tegel correctional facility, four prisoners tested positive for the corona virus this week. Sebastian Brux announced on Thursday, who represents the Senate Justice Administration as a spokesman. Three of the four sick people are vaccinated.
This means that all prisoners in facility 2 have to be quarantined, 274 people are affected. Using pool tests of three to five prisoners each, the prison management slowly gets an overview of the infection process in the institution. If one of these group tests works, you will continue individually. Therefore, the exact number of those infected cannot yet be stated. Previously had to die “Berliner Morgenpost” reported on the corona outbreak.
In the worst case, you have to reckon with 33 corona cases, since seven group tests have now had positive results. According to Brux, the situation should be clear in the evening or on Friday.
“We’re slowly testing ourselves out,” said Brux. He hopes that the measures can be scaled back in the next week. So far, all corona cases in Berlin prisons have been quickly brought under control. At the same time, research into the causes of the way in which the virus entered the institution from outside is in progress.
Already in November there was a lockdown in the Heidering prison after four positive cases. In response, a 3G regulation was introduced for employees of companies who had no direct contact with prisoners.
Only every second inmate vaccinated
In Berlin prisons, on average, only every second inmate is vaccinated against Corona. The responsible department head in the Senate Department for Justice, Susanne Gerlach, said on Wednesday. The vaccination rate varies between 50 and 60 percent depending on the institution, in some it is even lower.
The reason is the constant change of prisoners. The vaccination rate is particularly low in reception centers such as the Moabit JVA, “where new prisoners are constantly arriving”. In Tegel JVA, where people are serving longer prison sentences, they are far more vaccinated.
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All prisoners are offered a vaccination when they are admitted and continuously thereafter. The subject is a priority. One is “very, very proud” that “there are very few cases” of corona infections in the institutions.
The staff was vaccinated to 71.4 percent (as of December 3). Including fields including employees who did not work directly in the prisons. “I assume that realistically we have vaccinated around 80 percent of those who actually die on site in the institutions.”