MP: Elderly prisoner recovers from COVID-19 in Indore

Indore, May 7 () A 71-year-old prisoner, who hadtested positive for COVID-19, returned to the Central Jail inMadhya Pradesh's Indore city on Thursday, after recoveringfrom the infection.

The elderly inmate was admitted to a private hospitalon April 16, after he contracted the infection from anundertrial prisoner at the jail, deputy superintendent of theCentral Jail Laxman Bhadoriya said.

"The prisoner has recovered from COVID-19 and wasdischarged from a private hospital. He will now undergo themandatory 14-day quarantine at a facility inside the prison,"he said.

The inmate was serving a life sentence in a 2010 rapecase, he added.

So far, 32 people, including eight guards and 24prisoners, have tested positive for COVID-19 at the IndoreCentral Jail and seven inmates have recovered, Bhadoriya said.

"We hope other prisoners overcome the fear of COVID-19after seeing this elderly inmate recover from the deadlyinfection," an official said. HWP ADU MASARU ARU