Oyo State government must investigate what led to the carelessness at iSON Xperiences. We need to find out what went wrong, identify the culprits and serve them their comeuppance.
For iSON Xperiences, a company in Ibadan South West Local Government Area of Oyo State, it has been, literally speaking, a harvest of coronavirus cases, going by the number of its workers that have so far tested positive for the novel virus. It started with 30 cases on May 16 when Governor Seyi Makinde disclosed in his COVID-19 updates that the company accounted for 30 of the 31 new cases in the state. According to him: “The COVID-19 confirmation tests for 31 suspected cases came back positive.
Whether that was the appropriate thing to do in the circumstance is however not the issue now. That such a huge number of COVID-19 cases could emanate from just one company in a city is scary and scandalous. Scary because of the devastations caused worldwide by coronavirus in terms of mortalities as well as its socio-economic dislocations.
With regard to the instant incident, it is unlikely that such a huge number of their workers would have tested positive if adequate precautionary measures had been applied. For instance, mere temperature checks before the workers are allowed on the factory premises could have been helpful in preventing the high rate of confirmed cases of the virus there. This would have alerted the factory owners and management to the need to do the rightful before the matter escalated.
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