COVID-19: Ekiti trains 80 on random test

From Victor Akinkuolie Ado-Ekiti

Ekiti state government has disclosed that a total of 80 civil servants on the employment of the state have been trained to carry out testing the people on Coronavirus using infra red thermometer.

The Commissioner for Health in the state, Mrs. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, dropped the hint at the weekend during media briefing and update organises by members of COVID-19 task force in the state.

Yaya-Kolade added that a total of 234 blood samples had been taken and tested since the outbreak of the disease, assuring that more will be done to safeguard the state from calamity .

The commissioner also revealed that the state has set up molecular laboratory situated within the premises of the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, which she said will be launched soon by the Governor of the state, Dr Kayode Fayemi in no distant time.

She disclosed that the state has received over N600 million donations from philanthropists and private organisations in the state since the lockdown was pronounced by the Governor, in respect of the Coronavirus spread.

Yaya-Kolade also revealed that it has recorded new four cases , which involved tree males and one female, who sneaked into the state from Lagos, Katsina and Oyo states during the lockdown.

Yaya-Kolade said though, the State has discharged some patients from the isolation centre, but hinted that three of the four new cases were those that have been quarantined having come to the state from places considered as epicentre of Coronavirus.

“We have four new cases now. One of the cases is an old man that has been isolated in one of our tertiary health institutions for a while . He is an elderly person who is in a critical condition.

“Others included a 35- year old female from Katsina and 32- year male from Ibadan while the third one is a 38 -year old male from Lagos, who all sneaked into Ekiti during the lockdown.

“But despite all these, no community spread, because they all came from outside. We beg our people to always alert us when new people came into town, because this has been working .

“But we are begging that nobody should come to Ekiti now, it is an executive order given by Governor Kayode Fayemi that nobody should come at this precarious time.

“It constitutes financial burden to Ekiti for victim of COVID-19 to come from Lagos, Oyo, Katsina to come to our state for treatment”, she stated.

Similarly, the Director General, Office of Transformation, Strategy and Delivery, Prof Bolaji Aluko, stated that the state has benefited a sum of N631.083 million cash donations through the COVID-19 fund mobilisation Committee, headed by a renown legal luminaray Chief Afe Babalola (SAN).

Aluko said the state government will continue to work with security agencies and border towns to make the borders safe and impenetrable by intruders.

In his own, Commissioner for Environment, Hon Gbenga Agbeyo, said drone fumigation by Oodua fumigating team being powered by Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi will soon commence as part of the measures to curb the menace.