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Ekiti State Government on Friday announced the arrival of its molecular laboratory for COVID-19 tests.
The Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr (Mrs) Mojisola Yaya-Kolade disclosed this during a briefing by the State COVID-19 Taskforce in the Ado Ekiti.
She said the molecular laboratory which would aid random testing to curb community spread of the virus has arrived the state and would be commissioned by the Governor Kayode Fayemi next week.
“We trained about 80 Civil servants because of the partial opening of the MDAs. They are trained on temperature check using the Infrared, asking questions and what to do when temperature of someone is high,” Yaya-Kolade said.
The commissioner also announced that the state has discharged four COVID-19 patients after their second test turned negative.
According to her, the discharged patients were part of the five reported active cases at the state isolation centre before the results of three out of those who were quarantined came out.
She also said four new COVID-19 cases has been confirmed in the state, bringing the number of confirmed cases in Ekiti to 19, adding that 13 had been discharged while one death recorded.
Yaya-Kolade said three of the new patients were clinically stable and asymptomatic as at the time of the briefing, while the elderly patient who is critically ill, was on admission at one of the state’s tertiary institutions.
The commissioner clarified that the three new cases that came into the state during the lockdown and were quarantined by the state government was made up of a 38 year -old female who came in from Lagos State, a 25 year -old male who came in from Kastina and another 32 year- old male who came in from Oyo State.
She added that the state government had successfully traced 177 contacts with 38 others currently being followed.
Also, the Coordinator of the state COVID-19 Taskforce and Director General of OTSD, Professor Bolaji Aluko disclosed that a sum of 631 million naira has been received by the Resource Mobilization Committee from 535 donors who were made up of Ekiti sons and daughters.