More than 270 FSIN employees and 40 prisoners became infected with coronavirus

As noted, 18.7 thousand laboratory studies were carried out in institutions and bodies of the penal system.

“The number of laboratory confirmed cases of coronavirus among employees and employees of the department is 271. Among the suspects, accused and convicted, this figure today is 40 cases,” the report said.

The department said that among them there are no patients with a severe form of the disease.

Earlier, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Tatyana Moskalkova, who visited the Butyrka pre-trial detention center in Moscow, said she was following the situation in prisons.