Ninety-five inmates have been isolated at Gulu Main Prisons for monitoring as a precaution against spread of coronavirus.
The 95 are all new admissions who were remanded by court in the last one week, among them are eleven police officers who were remanded by High Court in Gulu on Tuesday.
Margaret Orik Obonyo, the Northern Region Prisons Commander disclosed this during the Acholi Regional Coronavirus Taskforce meeting held at the fourth division army barracks on Wednesday.
The prisons commander explained that the people placed in isolation at the facility are being monitored by the prisons health workers before they are mixed with the rest of the inmates.
She added that the prisons authority is also conducting sensitization of all inmates, staffs and family members to create awareness on coronavirus and how it can be prevented.
There are about 1,500 prisoners at Gulu Main Prisons.
Last week hundreds of them were transferred to Nwoya prisons in order to decongest the facility.
At Gulu Central Police Station and Fourth Division Army Barracks, every person is being screened using the temperature gun on entrance at the facilities as a measure to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Fourth Division Army Barracks Commander, Brigadier General Bonny Bamwiseki who is also chairperson for Acholi Regional Coronavirus Taskforce said that these are measures to protect against and prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Uganda has confirmed 53 cases of coronavirus.