Anxiety surrounding coronavirus is returning to Oyo State as the deadly Deltan variant of coronavirus has killed two people.
The state government confirmed this on Monday, saying contact tracing had accordingly begun.
Also, it said one other person was on treatment for the variant.
The state Incident Manager and Coordinator of the Emergency Operations Centre, Dr. Olabode Ladipo, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday, July 12, saying the one person was also isolated and receiving medical attention at one of the state isolation facilities.
Ladipo said, “Contact tracing is ongoing. Two of the cases are deceased but contact tracing is ongoing. As it is, one of contact is currently in isolation in the state facility but let me assure you that every form of effort is being proved to ensure that all the contact of everyone that we have received so far in the last two, three weeks are followed up and anyone of them that is positive, we will ensure that isolation is given.
“I foresee a situation in which if people actually adhere to those regulations that were spelt out, we might be able to tame that tide.
“Yes, we have been vaccinated. Vaccines have been given but we need to also understand that in Oyo State just like in any other state of the federation just around one per cent of the population has been vaccinated that leaves a chunk that is still there.
In Oyo state, we have been able to vaccinate about 90,000 people and in a state where the population of people is about 8.9 million, it has not reach the threshold that should be able to confer any form of herd immunity in population.”
