72-yr-old inmate at Mandaluyong women's prison tests positive for COVID-19 -BuCor

A 72-year-old inmate at the Correctional Institution for Women (CIW) in Mandaluyong City tested positive for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the Bureau of Corrections said on Saturday.

The woman, suffering from diabetes, was diagnosed at the CIW infirmary with community acquired pneumonia on Monday.

She was then admitted at the Sta. Ana Hospital  on the same day.

Contact tracing has already been done and all medical personnel and persons deprived of liberty (PDL) who came in contact with the COVID-19 positive are now being tested for the disease.

Meanwhile, no COVID-19 cases have been reported or monitored at the Operating Prison and Penal Farms.

"Rest assured that the lone PDL patient who is now confined at the Sta Ana Hospital is being attended to by our hospital frontliners," said the BuCor said in a statement. -MDM, GMA News