No investigation ongoing into how Lusignan prisoners were infected with COVID-19

Gladwin Samuels

Prison authorities are not investigating how the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) entered the Lusignan Prison, where more than one hundred inmates were infected.

Contacted by Stabroek News yesterday, Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels said that there are “many’ means in which COVID-19 could have entered the facility.

However, to date, he said there has not been any formal investigation to determine how the inmates were infected.