By Osagie Otabor, Akure
Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has said that the state is well equipped to treat the only COVID-19 patient it currently has.
Governor Akeredolu said the patient would not be transferred to Lagos State.
Speaking at a world press conference in Akure, Governor Akeredolu said the state’s own Infectious Disease Hospital where the patient is currently admitted has all the needed facilities.
The Ondo Governor urged the people not to be scared as the patient did not leave the premises of a military barrack when he returned from Indian.
Akeredolu stated that the military officer returned from Indian on an official assignment and was placed on self isolation but developed symptoms on Friday which made his samples to be collected and tested positive.
He said they have begun contact tracing and told those traced to self isolate in the barracks.
According to him, “We have moved the patient to our Infectious Disease Hospital (IDH). He has been receiving treatment and has been stable.
“If you trace the history of the officer, it leaves us with little or no potential of expansion. The man came in from Indian and on his return placed himself on self isolation. Whatever it is, all we have to do to prevent the spread has been done with this man being in self isolation
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“We have contained it within a room or the barrack. There was never a time the man left the barrack. Our people has no reason to fear. We want to strengthen our precautionary measures. The schools closure will remain until further notice. We have suspended public gathering and social activities that will involve crowd. We scaled down physical activities at the secretariat. We have to close done our markets. We directed a lock down of our borders. This became necessary because we discovered high movement of people from states that closed their borders.
“We have set up special relief distribution committee. The committee is to purchase and share food through the local government.
“There is no way we can list how many contacts we are tracing. We have a well equipped facility here in Ondo. We believe it will be enough for us. We will treat people here in our facilities. we pray there will not be any expansion. The module we have adopted is to have isolation centres in senatorial districts.
“If we have the means, we are going to spend millions of naira on palliatives. We are going to reach as many people as possible. There is no cause for fear. We should live our normal life. People should stay more at home.”
