Qatar confirms virus in jail, denies widespread outbreak

Qatar confirmed 12 cases of COVID-19 at a jail on Tuesday as campaign group Human Rights Watch warned other prisoners could be at risk of contracting the disease. Two inmates were acutely ill but none had succumbed to the respiratory condition, the Government Communications Office said in a statement which denied there was a widespread outbreak among prisoners. Human Rights Watch had said in a statement that six non-Qatari detainees “described a…