A resident of Kano State who sneaked into Osun State tested positive to coronavirus.The Osun State Government disclosed this in a statement...
A resident of Kano State who sneaked into Osun State tested positive to coronavirus.
According to the statement, the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu revealed that the new case of Coronavirus recorded in the state sneaked in from Kano State to the Iwo area of the State before his neighbours alerted the Osun COVID-19 team. He said, “The COVID-19 confirmation test for one suspected case came back positive on Friday out of the 14 samples we sent for testing at the NCDC accredited Testing Centre; the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, Ede during the week. The case sneaked into the State from Kano State and the neighbours immediately alerted our COVID-19 team.
Isamotu, who said that the State government isn’t resting on its oars in preventing community transmission of the virus, appealed to residents of the State to always be on the alert and immediately report any suspected case of Coronavirus.
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