The Justice Project Pakistan (JPP) said in a statement that more than 200 prisoners have tested positive for the deadly corona-virus at Karachi Central Jail.
According to JPP spokesperson Muhammad Shoaib, of the 370 tests conducted among the prisoners incarcerated at the Karachi Central Jail to check if they had contracted the deadly COVID-19, 212 came out positive.
With 40 cases reported earlier, the total number of infections among the inmates in the metropolis has now shot up to 252. Separately, 59 prisoners were reported coronavirus-positive in Lahore and 42 in various other cities.
The number of sickened prisoners are highest in Punjab, 100. Separately, one case has been reported from Quetta in Balochistan.
