The Commissioner for Health in Ekiti State, Dr Oyebanji Filani has confirmed that the state recorded 180 cases of COVID-19 between July and August 2021
Speaking during a news conference, the commissioner explained that 95 cases were recorded in July while 85 was recorded in the month of August.
The commissioner announced that government would revisit some of the precautionary measures put in the place in the past to avoid further spread. He said a task force would be set up to encore the rules which include mandatory wearing of masks, ban on social gatherings of more than fifty persons. Religious gatherings will also be restricted to fifty persons with strict compliance to the provision of soap and water for handwashing, he said
Dr Filani confirmed that the patients are stable and that the government has three isolation centres with the necessary facilities to manage cases.
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