Over 6,000 prisoners released in South Africa amid COVID-19 pandemic

South Africa has released over 6,000 inmates in a bid to reduce Covid-19 transmissions in prisons, Police Minister Bheki Cele announced on Wednesday. The authorities had released a total of over 6,128 inmates as the coronavirus kept spreading in prisons, Cele said at a virtual briefing on the country's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Xinhua reported.

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