The Edo State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Patrick Okundia, has said the state is making steady progress in the management of coronavirus (COVID-19)
, noting that the remaining eight active cases of COVID-19 are being managed at different isolations centres across the state and are responding well to treatment.
The commissioner noted that the multipronged strategy of the Governor Godwin Obaseki-led administration in handling the pandemic was yielding positive results, adding that the state is scaling up facility-based screening across the 18 Local Government Areas of Edo and commencing community mobile-based screening for COVID-19 in Oredo LGA, to obtain data on how to further contain the virus.
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