The Ekiti State Government has disclosed its readiness to set up a COVID-19 laboratory facility in the state to increase the capability for more tests for residents. The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, said the facility is to be provided by Governor Kayode Fayemi, in partnership with well-meaning Ekiti indigenes and other private sponsors.
The Ekiti State Government has disclosed its readiness to set up a COVID-19 laboratory facility in the state to increase the capability for more tests for residents.
She said: “The Federal government promised to provide a facility but it has not been forthcoming. The Governor, Dr. Fayemi now used his own initiative to reach out to well-meaning Ekiti Indigenes and friends to provide a facility that will boost our testing capacity. “All of them are also stable. We are still tracing about eleven contacts who had contacts with the patients in isolation”.
“We are determined to ensure that Ekiti records no death again and our testing capability is still going to be increased with the test laboratory we are planning for Ekiti”. The commissioner added that Governor Fayemi had ordered compulsory COVID 19 tests for those entering the state through the borders before being discharged from the quarantine centre.
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