BERLIN — A significant outbreak of positive COVID-19 cases at the state prison here has local health-care and municipal officials worried that it will spread to the vulnerable populations in the city’s two nursing homes.

The state prison reported its first positive staff case on Nov. 20 and its first positive inmate case on Dec. 14. By this Tuesday, the prison was reporting 75 positive cases among the inmates and five positive staff.

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