Ekiti State has announced five new cases of COVID-19 as the total number of confirmed infections in the state rose to 25.
The cases were said to have been recorded at the Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti (FETHI).
Briefing newsmen on Wednesday, the state’s Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Mrs Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, said two of the cases were health workers while others were old patients at the teaching hospital.
Yaya-Kolade disclosed that the new cases were from the 53 samples taken from contacts connected with the 75-year-old woman who was transferred from Omu-Aran in Kwara State to FETHI but later died.
She noted that the two health workers were still asymptomatic, though they will be given maximum attention and treatment as others.
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She said the state government is currently disinfecting the isolation centre to keep the facility free of the
virus and keep workers and patients safe at all time.