BERLIN — The federal prison in Berlin is in the midst of a major COVID-19 outbreak, with 167 inmates and 29 staff testing positive Wednesday.
The numbers were even higher a day before, when the Bureau of Prison’s website listed 218 inmates were positive out of a total population of 760.
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