COVID-19: Ekiti begins random testing for residents

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As part of measure to curtail community spread of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic, the Ekiti State government would next week begin random...

As part of measure to curtail community spread of the dreaded coronavirus pandemic, the Ekiti State government would next week begin random testing for residents across the 16 Council Areas of the state.

Yaya-kolade said the random testing which must be undertaken in view of the geometric increase in number of Covid-19 victims, will not be done by coercion, but through sensitisation and volition. The Commissioner stated that the state presently has only five patients in the isolation centre, which she said are stable, responding to treatment and assymptomatic .“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 masks and keep to personal hygiene and social financing.

 

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