Prison Health Program, Catalan Institute of Health, Barcelona, Spain.
CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
Epidemiol Infect. 2021 Apr 14;149:e91. doi: 10.1017/S0950268821000789.
An outbreak of SARS-CoV2 infection in a Barcelona prison was studied. One hundred and forty-eight inmates and 36 prison staff were evaluated by rt-PCR, and 24.1% (40 prisoners, two health workers and four non-health workers) tested positive. In all, 94.8% of cases were asymptomatic. The inmates were isolated in prison module 4, which was converted into an emergency COVID unit. There were no deaths. Generalised screening and the isolation and evaluation of the people infected were key measures. Symptom-based surveillance must be supplemented by rapid contact-based monitoring in order to avoid asymptomatic spread among prisoners and the community at large.
对巴塞罗那一所监狱发生的 SARS-CoV2 感染疫情进行了研究。通过 RT-PCR 对 148 名囚犯和 36 名监狱工作人员进行了评估，结果有 24.1%（40 名囚犯、两名卫生工作者和四名非卫生工作者）检测呈阳性。所有病例中，94.8%为无症状。囚犯被隔离在监狱模块 4 中，该模块被改造成一个紧急 COVID 单位。没有死亡病例。广泛筛查以及对感染者的隔离和评估是关键措施。基于症状的监测必须辅以快速的基于接触的监测，以避免囚犯和更广泛的社区中无症状传播。
