PRISON HEALTH IS PART OF PUBLIC HEALTH: With Special Reference to COVID-19
Abstract
As the pandemic spreads, the response to COVID-19 in prisons of detention becomes more challenging efforts to control COVID-19 in the community are likely to fail if strong infection prevention and control measures, testing, treatment and care are not carried out in prisons and other places of detention as well.
Prison health is part of public health so that nobody is left behind. As part of public health response, WHO worked with partners to develop a set of new materials on preparedness, prevention and control of COVID-19 in prisons and other places of detention.
The World Health Organisation has declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic. The symptoms of COVID-19 appear within 2 to 14 days after exposure and include fever, cough, a runny nose and difficulty in breathing.
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