Report says four new cases of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Ekiti State.
This was disclosed in a series of tweets on the state's official COVID-19 update handle Saturday Evening.
This was disclosed in a series of tweets on the state's official COVID-19 update handle Saturday Evening.
The new cases are reportedly primary contacts of the 4th recorded case, a male doctor working in a private hospital who carried out a surgery on the recently deceased third positive case, during childbirth.
The newly confirmed cases are currently stable and asymptomatic and they have been transferred to the State’s Isolation Center, Ado-Ekiti while the contact tracing team have commenced the process of contact identification and tracing of their immediate contacts for isolation.
This brings the total of COVID-19 positive cases in Ekiti State to eight, Five are currently active, Two patients have been discharged, and One death has been recorded in the state.
Tweet;
EKITI COVID-19 UPDATE: We can confirm four (4) new #COVID19 positive cases in Ekiti State whose result came back positive today.— EKITI COVID19 UPDATES (@Ekiti_COVID19) April 25, 2020
As at 8:00 am on April 25, there are five (5) active cases of COVID-19 in Ekiti State.
Discharged: 2
Death: 1#CoronaUpdate pic.twitter.com/M6IAeuso8B