Covid-19: Ekiti to Start Random Testing of Residents
To avert the spread of the dreadful Covid-19 pandemic, the Ekiti State Government will next week begin random testing of residents across the state.
The commissioner added that all the claims by institutions that they have produced herbal cure for Covid-19 must be scrutinised and made to pass through medical screening before approval. The commissioner stated that the state presently has only five patients in the isolation centre, which she said are stable, responding to treatment and asymptomatic.
“We are also thinking about complying with the new NCDC regulation that you can discharge after first negative testing, if you are overburdened will patients. But we are going to be cautious in applying this. “Some of them came from Katsina, Lagos and Kano, which had made it imperative for us to secure our border and make us safe.
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