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Pakistan Confirms 1st Prisoner with COVID-19 in Crowded Jail

Ayaz Gul

   ISLAMABAD - Officials in Pakistan Tuesday confirmed the country's first
   coronavirus case among thousands of inmates in an overcrowded prison
   facility, saying the person had been arrested on drug charges in Italy
   before his recent deportation.

   Italy has suffered by far the deadliest consequences of the pandemic,
   reporting more than 6,000 deaths and has the second highest overall
   number of infections.

   The prisoner with coronavirus was being held at the central jail in
   Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's most populous Punjab province, which
   houses around 3,500 inmates.'¯

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