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A Rimutaka Prison unit housing about 50 inmates has been put in quarantine over a suspected outbreak of H1N1.
Corrections Department health manager Bridget White says that three inmates in the low security unit were sick with suspected influenza A (H1N1) and had been isolated in their cells at the direction of public health officials. One had been tested so far.
"Any prisoner confirmed as being infected will be treated with Tamiflu," she told the Dominion Post.
Other unit inmates had been segregated from the rest of the prison.
Meanwhile, the national total of confirmed cases, has now crept up to 127, with an additional 20 probable cases.
The Ministry of Health, says although the number of swine flu cases is growing, it won't be long, before it'll give up trying to contain the virus, and move to managing it instead.
Health officials say the focus will soon shift to managing swine flu, with people looking after themselves at home, and only the most serious cases, requiring special attention.
This would mean less need to quarantine, suspected cases.
