68-year-old Weinstein was arrested upon conviction before being entered in New York City's prison framework. He was treated at Bellevue Hospital and was later moved to Rikers Island prison in New York City.
In the wake of being given a 23-year prison sentence on March 11, he was again taken to Bellevue Hospital and later moved back to Rikers as he stood by to be moved to a state jail. Rikers is anyway confronting one of the nation's most noticeably terrible announced coronavirus episodes, with in any event 38 individuals testing positive starting a week ago.
On March 19, Weinstein was taken to a greatest security jail outside Buffalo, Wende Correctional Facility in the town of Alden in Erie County. Niagara Gazette revealed that Harvey is right now in clinical segregation at Wende Correctional Facility. The nearby paper in upstate New York refered to unknown authorities in its report.
Michael Powers, leader of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association (NYSCOPBA) said;
"There is no better rearing ground for this infection than a shut situation, for example, a remedial office."
It has been accounted for that 21 prisoners and another 17 laborers at Rikers have tried positive for COVID-19. The jail is presently checking 58 detainees.
When reached, delegates from New York State's Department of Corrections didn't react to demands from news outlets for direct affirmation because of its approach that they "can't remark on a person's clinical record." They anyway affirmed that two detainees at the office have tried constructive.
A representative of the office said;
"The Department can't remark on a person's clinical record. In any case, we can affirm that two of the Department's around 43,000 detained people, both at Wende Correctional Facility, have affirmed cases. With each affirmed case, DOCCS worked with the Department of Health to distinguish any possibly uncovered people so as to give notices and to stop the spread of the infection."
It is anyway not satisfactory on the off chance that he gotten the fatal infection while at Wende or Rikers, or during one of two remains at NYC's Bellevue medical clinic where he was treated for hypertension and chest torments. Authorities accept he was at that point sick with the infection when he was moved last Wednesday March 18.
A representative for Weinstein disclosed to The Sun on Sunday evening that he had not been educated regarding a positive test outcome.
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