One new coronavirus case has been confirmed in Ekiti State by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC.
In a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, on Monday, the new positive case was a female, who entered Ekiti State during the lockdown, from Katsina State.
Yaya-Kolade said her purpose was to visit her husband, a military officer, who resides in Oye-Ekiti.
According to the commissioner, ‘when he (the female positive case) noticed symptoms of the COVID-19 infection, he alerted the Ekiti State Taskforce on COVID-19, and samples were taken from her for testing. ‘The test result returned positive to #COVID19‘, she added.
The new case brings the total number of confirmed infections of the virus in Ekiti State to ‘twelve (12), of which nine (9) are active, two (2) discharged, and one (1) death’.
