The Osun government says it is about doing a headcount in
order to know the true situation of things at the isolation center in the
state.
There are reports that six patients escaped from General
Hospital, Ejigbo, where those suspected of contracting coronavirus are being
kept.
Ismail Omipidan, chief press
secretary to the governor, said when he saw the report of patients fleeing the
isolation center, the first thing he did was to call one of the numbers on a
list of “escapee patients” circulating on social media.
He said the person whom he spoke with confirmed being at the
isolation center.
“There are currently 20 coronavirus cases in Osun and 18 of
this figure are from the 127 returnees from Ivory Coast.
“They claimed they were from Osun and when His Excellency,
Gov Oyetola, got that information, he reached out to his Ogun state counterpart
to provide security for the returnees to get here and the Ogun state government
graciously did that.
“However, when the returnees got here and we profiled them,
we discovered that not all of them are from Osun. Some are from Kwara, Oyo,
Ekiti, Edo and Anambra.
“We decided to keep them in our holding facility here in
Osun in good faith. Those with the disease could transmit it if they are
allowed to go to their various states, that’s why we made sure that they did
not leave.”
Asked if the facility is conducive, Omipidan said: “The
hospital where they are kept is newly built. It’s a new facility.”
As of 10:40pm on Friday, there were 210 cases of coronavirus
in the country, 25 recoveries and four deaths.
Lagos has the highest number of 109, followed by Abuja with
41 and Osun with 22.
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