The Guardian (Nigeria)

Osun State SSG, others test positive for COVID- 19

• State records 11 fresh cases • Lagos govt says coronaviru­s testing remains free at public laboratori­es • Oyo makes facemasks compulsory for students on resumption

- By Gbenga Salau ( Lagos), Tunji Omofoye ( Osogbo) and Rotimi Agboluaje ( Ibadan)

SECRETARY to Osun State Government ( SSG), Wole Oyebamiji and some workers in his office, have tested positive for COVID- 19.

The developmen­t was among the 11 fresh cases of coronaviru­s recorded in the state.

The state’s Commission­er for Health, Dr. Rafiu Isamotu, who in a statement in Osogbo confirmed the discovery of the additional 11 cases in the state, expressed concern over the lackadaisi­cal attitude of the people towards the use of facemasks and other preventive measures rolled out to contain the pandemic.

Isamotu said that one patient had equally been discharged after testing negative for the virus.

He, however, noted that one of the reasons for the sudden rise in the COVID- 19 cases in the state was largely due to non- chalant attitude of residents to containmen­t measures.

Isamotu also hinted that there were strong reasons to believe that the state now has community transmissi­on around Ilesa axis, warning that government might be forced to impose another lockdown on the state.

the same vein, Lagos State Government has said that testing for Coronaviru­s at public laboratori­es is free.

In a statement yesterday, the state’s Commission­er for Informatio­n, Gbenga Omotoso, said: “The state would like to re- assure the public that testing is still free at all the COVID- 19 public testing laboratori­es for all Lagos residents. Lagosians are enjoined to take advantage of this serv

I Nice if they feel unwell or feel they have had close contact with an infected person.” N the meantime, students in primary and secondary schools in Oyo State are ready to resume on Monday, July 6, 2020. The state government has announced various measures to be put in place to prevent the spread of COVID- 19.

The state’s Commission­er for Education, Science and Technology, Olasunkanm­i Olaleye, who disclosed this yesterday in his office in Ibadan, said that various

Itrainings had been given to categories of school heads, principals and teachers on how to monitor and report any illness that showed symptoms of COVID- 19 to the authoritie­s. Olaleye said the state had set up Emergency Operation Centres ( EOCS) in the state capital and at zonal levels and appointed incident managers for each school who would report any emergency directly to the EOCS through special communicat­ion lines.

He further said that each class would have a warder whose obligation is to relate with the incident managers on his or her observatio­ns.

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Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde ( middle); Chairman, State Advisory Committee, Hosea Agboola ( left) and others, during the inspection of some flooded areas in Ibadan… yesterday. PHOTO: NAJEEM RAHEEM
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