The Ekiti State Government has raised alarm over the possible spread of coronavirus in the state if residents do not follow preventive guidelines.
The warning was issued after 11 samples came back positive out of 153 tests conducted at the new molecular laboratory in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, made this known to journalists on Wednesday while giving update on the pandemic’s spread in the state.
Yaya-Kolade said a total of 505 samples have been taken and tested since March 19 when the state recorded the first case.
She said, “Out of 246 samples taken, 153 results have already been screened: 142 were negative while 11 were positive.
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“Our fear is the possibility of community spread in Ekiti, because we could not trace all the contacts and the present statistics revealed that we had 7.189 percent, which was the highest in recent time.”
She added, ”Out of the 11 positive patients, eight are on admission at the isolation centre.
“Our people should endeavour to use sanitizers and hand washing soaps. With the way things are going, nobody knows when this COVID-19 will end and occasional inexplicable death may happen and when it happens, we must report to any of the health facilities around us.