Governor Kayode Fayemi on Friday disclosed that not less than N2million has accrued to the coffers of the State being the various fines paid by the lockdown violators since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The governor also said that over 100 offenders have been prosecuted.
Speaking during the press briefing, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, said the laboratory located at the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital will be commissioned by Governor Kayode Fayemi.
“We are still perfecting some regulatory procedure with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, but everything will be finetuned before Monday.
“We have had 20 COVID-19 cases so far, two are still active, we have recorded two deaths and 16 have been treated with investigational drugs and discharged,” she said.
The commissioner disabused the minds of the people that cases of COVID-19 have become a financial gain to a state, clarifying that “it Is a financial drain to any state, not a benefit”.
The Director General, Office of Transformation, Strategy and Delivery, Prof. Bolaji Aluko, said security is still tight at the border towns and that the state has not recorded serious incursion through the borders in recent time.
Aluko stated that the fact that all the quanratined centres in all the 16 local government areas are currently empty, corroborated the fact that the borders were well secured.
The Commissioner for Environment, Hon Gbenga Agbeyo, said the government has undertaken the fumigation of all major towns across the three Senatorial districts in the state to ward off COVID-19 spread.
“To ensure that we have a healthy environment, the government has declared that all Ekiti residents must observe the monthly environmental programme on Saturday, May 30 to make our state clean.”
Also speaking, the Senior Special Assistant on Public Health, Dr. Jimlas Ogunsakin, added that sensitisation on the danger of Covid 19 is still being intensified across the 133 towns in the state to contain its spread .
Ogunsakin said the disease has not reached the level of community transmission due to the right strategies put in place by the state government via the COVID-19 task force.
The Ekiti State government would on Monday, June 1, commission the COVID-19 Molecular Laboratory established to boost the testing capacity of the state.
