Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has disclosed that the state has recorded the first case of COVID-19 death.
Abiodun said the state has recorded 29 cases, out of which six cases have been discharged while 22 were in isolation centres.
The Governor disclosed this during a press briefing held on Friday, in his Iperu residence.
The Governor, however, did not give details of the first COVID-19 death in the state.
Abiodun in his statement said:
“out of the 29 cases, six of them have been discharged to re-join their family and restart normal life; one dead; and, 22 active cases who are currently receiving efficient treatment from our medical officers.
“For us in Ogun State, we thank God that our efforts towards fighting the Covid-19 pandemic to a stand-still are achieving desired results. But we cannot also drop our guards.
” In the last one week, the number of confirmed cases in our dear Ogun State has risen to more than double. As at Thursday, 23rd April, 2020, there are 29 confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Ogun State as against 12 confirmed cases of Covid-19 as at Friday, 17th April, 2020.”
According to him,
“The fact that we get more number of confirmed cases shows we are doing right what we are to do. The increase in numbers of cases is because of our increase pace of testing.
“The advantage of this, is that it is better for us to detect and treat people who are already infected rather than leaving them undetected which will be more detrimental because it will increase community transmission.
” Let me also state that although, majority of these new cases are detected on immigrants coming into our country through our land borders.
” The lesson thereof is that the peculiarity of our dear State as the next-door neighbour to Lagos State which is the epicentre of the fight against Covid-19; and as a gateway to the other parts of the country, especially as a window to the West African sub-region puts us at a vulnerable position.”
