Two Santa Barbara County Jail inmates and one Sheriff’s Workplace deputy not too long ago examined optimistic for COVID-19, based on a sheriff’s spokeswoman.
The 2 inmates examined optimistic through the inmate screening course of, stated spokeswoman Raquel Zick, who added that one inmate has since been launched whereas the opposite inmate is being housed in an space of the jail separate from the overall inhabitants.
The deputy who examined optimistic brings the overall variety of Sheriff’s Workplace workers who’ve examined optimistic for the coronavirus to 118.
The entire variety of inmates who’ve examined optimistic is 215, together with 41 who examined optimistic through the consumption screening course of, 174 who turned contaminated inside the power and one dying, based on Zick.
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