Twenty-five of 214 newly committed inmates brought to the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology male isolation facility in Barangay Handumanan, Bacolod City, have tested positive for COVID-19.
The newly committed persons deprived of liberty from the various Philippine National Police and other law enforcement units in Negros Occidental were brought to the isolation facility for COVID-19 testing, Jail SSupt. Gilbert Peremne, BJMP Region 6 assistant regional director, said.
Those who tested positive were placed in the BJMP Ligtas Covid Center in Talisay City for healing, he said.
Those who tested negative were brought back to their jails of origin in various parts of the province, he added.
The procedure is before they are placed in their jails of origin they need to be quarantined first for COVID -19 testing, Peremne said.*