Associated Press
CARSON CITY, Nev. — State prison officials have ordered a lockdown at a medium-security facility in northern Nevada after 93 inmates and seven staff members tested positive for the coronavirus.
The Nevada Department of Corrections said Friday that additional sanitation measures have been deployed and all meals are being delivered to individual units during the lockdown at the Warm Springs Correctional Center in Carson City.
Department Director Charles Daniels said the remainder of the facility’s 525 offenders and all staff would be tested again Friday and Saturday.
He didn’t disclose when the positive results were confirmed. Employees routinely are tested every two weeks and offenders every three weeks.