State to test everyone held in prisons, jails and psychiatric facilities for COVID-19 [View all]

Officials will test all people incarcerated in state prisons and jails, as well as those in state-run inpatient psychiatric facilities, for COVID-19 as part of Connecticut’s screening of vulnerable and high-risk groups.

The state will also test all frontline staff at corrections facilities and Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services psychiatric hospitals.

“We want to get all of them tested in the ramp-up phase, which starts next week,” said Max Reiss, Gov. Ned Lamont’s spokesperson. “Whether you’re in a DMHAS facility or in a hospital, in a health care facility, or nursing home, or corrections facility, we want to have the best data possible regarding the spread and regarding transmission.”

Reiss said the goal is to test all inmates, patients in psychiatric hospitals, and Department of Correction DMHAS frontline staff by the end of June.

Read more: https://ctmirror.org/2020/05/08/state-to-test-everyone-held-in-prisons-jails-and-psychiatric-facilities-for-covid-19/