Professor Tulio de Oliveira discusses Covid-19 in prisons
Professor Tulio de Oliveira is the director of the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) at UKZN. He joins us for another Covid-19 informative session.
The call to release inmates due to the spread of Covid-19 in prisons is worrying. Prof Oliveira discusses in detail why the spread of the virus is increasing rapidly in prisons.
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"It means that the virus gets into a very confined environment, with lots of people living in close proximity or working in close proximity of each other, which then allows the virus to multiply very quickly, which can come back into the general population," said Prof Oliveira.
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He continues that the spread of the virus isn't from people to people contact but from 'Formites'. Particles of the virus are left on surfaces and easily spread.
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