Oyo Records 87 New COVID-19 Cases, Figure Soars To 2,076

Oyo State has recorded an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the state with results of the confirmatory tests of 87 persons which came back positive on Friday.

Governor Seyi Makinde announced this on his Twitter handle on Saturday .

With the fresh cases, the figure of the confirmed cases in the state has now soared to 2076.

The tweet reads, ” (for July 17, 2020) 1. The COVID-19 confirmation tests for eighty-seven suspected cases came back POSITIVE.

“The total number of confirmed cases in Oyo State today is 2076. Visit a community-based testing centre, if you have any COVID-19 symptoms: cough, fever, tiredness, body ache, loss of smell/taste and shortness of breath.”

Meanwhile, the  State Commissioner for Health, Dr Bashir Bello, has said the state government is planning to build isolation centres in Ogbomoso, Oke-Ogun and other parts of the state.

The commissioner said this at the inauguration of a temporary isolation centre in Aawe. 

He said this was one of the efforts of the state to curb the spread of COVID-19.

He said, ” Plans are ongoing to site isolation centres in all parts of the state especially Ogbomoso, Saki and other parts of Oke-ogun. 

“Since the first confirmed case of the virus in the state, the Olodo infectious Disease Centre and the Agbami Isolation Centre have both been commissioned to stop the spread of the virus.”

The Deputy Governor, Rauf Olaniyan, said the present administration was determined to revamp the health sector in the state.

He further reiterated that the isolation centre, was modelled to the standard of a cottage primary health centre and will be made to serve the purpose once the virus is defeated adding that it was part of the effort to revamp the dilapidated healthcare machinery in the state.