Uttarakhand High Court issues guidelines for vaccination for prisoners.
On 10th May 2021 the High cOurt of Uttarakhand issued several directions to the State Government with regard to the management of COVID in prisons. Some of these directions have been reproduced below-
The number of the prisoners being inoculated is drastically increased. In fact, since most of the prisoners would be above the age of eighteen years, the inoculation of prisoners must be ensured by the State Government as expeditiously as possible, and preferably within one month from the date of this order.
When a prisoner is being released, he must be subjected to Rapid Antigen Test /RT-PCR test in order to ensure that he does not leave the jail premises as a Covid-19 positive case. For, there are great chances that such a prisoner, who is being released, may carry the virus with him, and may infect his family, in particular, and the society, in general.
