Ekiti State Commissioner for Health, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade,
has said that two children under the age of 10 are among the four newly confirmed COVID-19 patients in the state.
She told journalists in Ado-Ekiti on Monday that they were latest four cases that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control announced.
She told journalist, “In the four new cases, there were two children of ages 10 and 9 who must have contracted it through the 45-year-old doctor and only active case before the new cases.
“They are all in the isolation centre. They are responding, doing well, stable and in high spirit.
“With this new development, we have 58 contacts to trace and we have started doing that. Blood samples have been taken and results are being awaited while the contacts tracing also continues.”
She, however, noted that the state did not yet have community spread of the pandemic “his is because we know where the contacts came from.”
