Work continues to get a COVID-19 outbreak under control at the Thunder Bay District Jail.
The Thunder Bay District Health Unit declared it Thursday with as many as 24 individuals being identified as having the virus, which includes staff and inmates.
“Protecting the health and safety of correctional services staff and those in provincial custody is the ministry’s top priority,” explained spokesperson Andrew Morrison. “The ministry has developed COVID-19 protocols for provincial correctional facilities, in alignment with the Ministry of Health and public health partners. Any inmate that tests positive for COVID-19 is placed on droplet and contact precautions and isolated from the rest of the inmate population while they receive appropriate medical care.”
Morrison went onto say that the Ministry has its own supply of COVID-19 vaccines, which are made available to all eligible inmates.
Also clinical staff have access to inmate vaccination records via the provincial COVAX system.
Acadia News did reach out to the President of OPSEU local 737 Bill Hayes for comment, but our calls have not been returned.
