Commissioner for Health, Abia State, Dr Joe Osuji has disclosed that 17 members of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, currently at the orientation camp at Umunna, Bende council area, have tested positive to Covid-19.
Osuji, who said this in an interview with Journalists, added that the corps members were made to go through compulsory testing on arrival at the orientation camp where it was discovered that 17 of them tested positive to covid-19.
He further stated that 7 of them however have been treated and discharged, 2 are on self isolation while 5 are at the state isolation center, Umuahia.
The commissioner complained that people have neglected the covid19 protocol in wearing face masks while those who wear masks, do it wear it half way.
He appreciated the government for easing the difficulty in transporting samples of the covid-19 test to Irua Edo State, Abakaliki, Ebonyi States and a laboratory centre at Owerri, as Gov.Okezie Ikpeazu established a molecular laboratory at Amachara General hospital, Umuahia as well as the infectious Disease Hospital and treatment centre, Aba.
Osuji also noted that about 10,864 samples were collected and 947 tested positive at the test centers.
The Commissioner added that Abia has the highest sample testing centres in the South East and South south zones and 925 persons have been treated and discharged, 11 patients are on self isolation under close monitoring while 7 are currently at the treatment centres.
“In the month of July till date, testing is still ongoing in the entire 17 LGAs. If somebody tests positive, we immediately begin contact tracing from family to where he or she works, that is how we have been able to contain the virus. As I speak we have almost flattened the curve, all these were made possible through the governors efforts.”
