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Ondo CP orders COVID-19 test for police officers

Ondo CP orders COVID-19 test for police officers

By Tola Gbadamosi & Sade Adewale
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Ondo state commissioner of Police, Mr. Undie Adie has directed that all Police officers at the Yaba Police station, Ondo to be subjected to COVID-19 test.

Adie gave this order following the news that three members of the division had tested positive to the virus.

According to the police boss who spoke with The Hope Metro, the officers have also been isolated pending the result of the test.

His words:, ” I have ordered them to come to Akure for test . We have to be careful and prevent what may lead to pandemic within the police command.”

Undie also ordered that they should come with their relations and those they know have interacted with them in recent time.

It would be recalled that three officers attached to Yaba Police Station on Monday tested positive to COVID-19.

The affected police officers were said to have contracted the disease from a senior female colleague who allegedly refused to go for test despite showing symptoms.

The Hope Metro reliably gathered that the policemen have been admitted at the state Infectious Disease Hospital in Akure.

Sources said the female senior police officer resorted to take herbs for treatment rather than go for a test to know her COVID-19 status.

She was reported to have been exposed by a relative who posted on a WhatsApp platform that her sister has been taking herbs at home to treat herself rather than go to the hospital.

The relative was said to have cried out so that innocent people around her would not be infected in case she tested positive.

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She reportedly posted, ‘’ I’m ready to give all information needed. It’s my blood sister. The family members do not know. Neighbours don’t know (about her health condition) and she is drinking herbs.

” Who knows what is happening to other officers too? She is not the only one in Yaba police station. Yaba is a big police station in Ondo town.’’

The state police spokesman, ASP Tee-Leo Ikoro, however told our correspondent that there was an officer, infected with the disease at Yaba Police Division, but was not a senior police officer.

He said, ”When I learnt about the matter yesterday, and we investigated it, we discovered that it was the Federal SARS officer in the division that they were referring to and he had been quarantined.’’

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