CAT/OP/12 2. Measures regarding hygiene, medical aspects and food, and alternative methods for maintaining family contact 10. The following measures were undertaken with regard to hygiene, medical aspects, food and maintaining family contact: (a) Identification of persons with health risks; (b) Emergency purchase of sanitary equipment and medical material for detention facilities, including personal protective equipment, delivery of hygiene goods to inmates and prison staff, and the reinforcement of cleaning and disinfection protocols; (c) Limitation of transfers of detainees between places of deprivation of liberty; (d) Creation of spaces for COVID-related isolation for incoming inmates and detainees with health risks, and for preventive isolation of inmates suspected of infection, that ensure an adequate detention environment for them, and the creation of visiting quarters that are appropriate for pandemic conditions; (e) Increase of delivery of goods, food, water, vitamins and food supplements to persons deprived of liberty; (f) Introduction of new means of communication, including tablets, mobile phones and the use of video calls, increased time for virtual contacts with the outside world, and increased use of postal communication with relatives; (g) Improved and expanded access to educational, recreational and sports activities, in particular for minors and young adults; (h) detainees; Production of masks in detention facilities as an occupational activity for (i) Provision of additional psychological support for detainees and families; (j) Provision of remote psychosocial consultations for detainees and families; (k) Provision of treatment outside of the institution for patients and/or residents of psychiatric and social care institutions. B. National preventive mechanisms4 11. The Subcommittee was informed about the measures adopted by national preventive mechanisms to enable them to carry out their activities during the pandemic. Below is a summary of the most common measures reported to the Subcommittee: (a) Introduction of visiting protocols during the pandemic; (b) Acquisition of personal protective equipment to enable the continuation of detention visits, with some national preventive mechanisms focusing specifically on infected persons in places of deprivation of liberty; (c) The carrying out of monitoring visits to all types of places of deprivation of liberty with the necessary precautionary measures, with visits carried out by other means when they had to be interrupted; 4 In total, 64 national preventive mechanisms or similar bodies submitted information to the Subcommittee, from the following countries: Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom. 3