Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, who is also head of the state’s COVID-19 task force, has confirmed five new coronavirus cases in the state.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had on Tuesday night announced the five new cases as part of 148 across the country.
In a Twitter thread on Wednesday, Mr Makinde said that four out of those five persons are immigrants from the north while one person is a resident of Ibadan, Oyo State capital.
“We have received more results from pending COVID-19 confirmation tests. The result of one suspected case came back POSITIVE, on 03/05/2020. The person is based in Ibadan,” he wrote.
“The results of five suspected cases came back POSITIVE on 04/05/2020. Four of these five cases are immigrants and the last person is an Oyo State resident.
“Of the 33 active cases being managed by the state, two have absconded, possibly to their permanent places of residence. This brings the number of active cases in Oyo State to 31.
“Ten cases are self-isolating while twenty-one cases are being managed in the isolation centres in Oyo State; one at the University College Hospital, Ibadan & twenty in Olodo. Nineteen of these twenty cases at Olodo are asymptomatic & the last person has anosmia (loss of smell).”
The governor said all total of 975 samples have been collected for COVID-19 test and are being processed.
