BY REBECCA AJANI
ONDO State Government, on Tuesday, faulted the COVID-19 figure declared by the Nigeria Centre For Disease Control for the state, saying it gave a wrong impression that the state was now the most severely affected by the virus.
The state argued that the figure that was released was the cumulative of arrears for several days due to delay in getting results from testing laboratories.
The acting Commissioner for Health, Dr Jibayo Adeyeye, made the clarification in a statement in Akure.
He said, “The NCDC report created an impression that the state was now the most severely affected state in the country. This is far from the truth.
“The true picture is that the figure recently declared for the state is cumulative of arrears for several days due to delay in getting results from the testing laboratories.”
The Commissioner added, “The current situation report with regard to COVID-19 in the state includes 18,443 as total number of samples collected since inception, 2,491 confirmed cases, 2,395 recovery cases.
“The total number of deaths from COVID-19 is 54; case of fatality rate goes to 2.2 per cent and current test positivity rate is 20 per cent.
“Though the government is concerned about the rate of infection in the state, nonetheless, the data indicates that the state is clearly not the most affected in the country.”
He said the state government would continue to do everything possible to bring down the rate of infection to the barest minimum, while urging the people to ensure compliance with all laid down COVID-19 rules.
