Pune, June 4 (PTI) The prison at Solapur in Maharashtra has reported 60 COVID-19 patients including inmates and jail staff in the last few days, a senior jail official said on Thursday.

On May 26, an inmate and a staff tested positive. Subsequently, the samples of primary contacts of the patients also tested positive, a prison official said.

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"So far, 60 people including eight staff have been found to have contracted the virus," he said.

The jail houses 300 inmates.

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District Collector Milind Shambharkar said that all these patients have been isolated at a temporary facility.

Solapur district has so far reported 1,144 cases of COVID-19 and 99 deaths.

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