By Wole Adedeji, Ilorin
The Kwara State Special Committee on Coronavirus has confirmed that a person was infected to the disease at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, UITH.
Deputy Governor f the State, Mr. Kayode Alabi at a press conference in Ilorin said the State now has four cases made up of two female and two male.
He announced a stiffer measure to ensure compliace with the imposed total lockdown of the State to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Kwara.
UITH had been in the news negatively of late because of an alleged unprofessional of a case feared to have presented symptoms of COVID-19 but treated like an ordinary case.
The patient died in the hospital and hurriedly in an untidy manner where a professor of medicine of the tertiary health institution was fingered.
At the press conference, Deputy Governor Alabi said the earlier free days to shop in markets on Modays, Wednesdays and Fridays between the hours of 10 am and 2 pm had been canceled.
Instead, he said people can only patronize neighbourhood shops and markets between 8 am and 12 noon on the same days.
Meanwhile, he said government was aware of the possibility of some criminal elements to want to carry out armed banditry in Kwara State like it is happening in Lagos.
The Deputy Governor said the government in collaboration with security agencies were prepared to decisively deal with the situation.
Meanwhile, medical teams saddled with the responsility of contact tracing and carrying out tests have spread out to the 16 Local Governments of the State to track suspected contacts of the victims.
