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EKSG to prosecute COVID-19 patient, others

EKSG to prosecute COVID-19 patient, others

From Victor Akinkuolie, Ado-Ekiti
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The Ekiti State Government has vowed to institute legal action against the patient who brought COVID-19 from Katsina into the  state despite the lockdown order and prohibition of interstate movements in the state.

The Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr Mrs Mojisola Yahaya-Kolade, who made the disclosure in Ado-Ekiti, said, the government has also quarantined seven men who forcefully entered the state from Kano and three other females who came from Oyo State.

The commissioner explained that the woman who came from Katsina to visit her husband, a military man working in Ekiti ,was discovered to have contracted COVID 19 after her husband alerted the task force when she started manifesting symptoms.

She explained that the woman who came to visit her husband at this period had committed an offence, which flagrantly violated the law of the state.

The Commissioner added that the woman’s husband, who was the only main contact has been quarantined for 14 days in line with the World Health Organisation’s guidelines .

Also speaking, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Health, Dr. Jimlas  Ogunsakin, revealed that seven people who returned to the state from Kano and three other females who forcefully entered Ekiti had been quanratined to contain the spread of the deadly scourge.

On the wellbeing of the patients at the isolation centre,Ogunsakin said: “Water facilities and others are freely provided. Before we started using the place, it was renovated optimally . We give food three times daily to all the patients despite the fact that  protocols didn’t entail that”.

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The Commissioner for Information, Mr. Muyiwa Olumilua , said government has constituted an Environmental Task Force, to monitor compliance with protocols at market places, religious centres , banks and by okada riders.

Olumilua said starting from today, the security agencies have been given the matching orders to arrest those not using the nose masks , saying such people will be prosecuted.

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