The positive cases were revealed following swab tests conducted at the facility on Oct. 26, when 1,502 inmates were tested.

“The results were delivered to us in two stages. The first results, which we received on Nov. 2, showed that 207 inmates were positive for COVID-19, and on Nov. 5 we received another group of swab test results that showed that 150 inmates were positive,” Riau Law and Human Rights Agency head Ibnu Chuldun said on Friday, adding that the inmates were asymptomatic.

“We have [responded to] the COVID-19 spread by separating healthy inmates from positive inmates. Some of the inmates who tested negative have been transferred to the juvenile detention [facility] in Rumbai,” he said.

He went on saying that the inmates’ families should not feel worried, because inmates with COVID-19 have been treated by the COVID-19 task force in Riau.

“Every positive inmate has been isolated and treated for 14 days as stipulated in the health protocols,” Ibnu said.

He also added that the task force had previously treated inmates at the Women’s Detention Center in Pekanbaru. 

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