“We will begin random testing next week to stop community spread.” Ekiti Covid19 Nigeria
The state government also restated its commitment to ensure that security agencies enforcing the lockdown do not infringe on the rights of the suspected offenders in the state.
She said the random testing, which would be done across the 16 local councils and which must be undertaken in view of the geometric increase in number of COVID-19 patients, would not be done by coercion. Besides, the commissioner, who stated that the state presently had only five patients in the isolation centre, whom she said, were stable and asymptomatic, said: “We are still tracing some contacts and we are expecting our molecular laboratory soon just as we are still preaching prevention and containment through usage of face-masks and keep to personal hygiene and social financing.The state is doing a lot of infection prevention training for our health workers to make our people safe.
Meanwhile, the Director-General, Office of Strategic Transformation and Delivery, Prof. Bolaji Aluko, who spoke on inter-state movement restriction, said the border closure became the best alternative as the virus was brought into the state by outsiders.
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