Ekiti State Commissioner for Health, Dr Mojisola Yaya - Kolade, has confirmed that a medical doctor contracted COVID-19 on Tuesday.
Yaya - Kolade said the doctor, who is now the fourth case in the state, was receiving treatment at the state Isolation Centre.
However, the first two cases in the state had been treated and discharged.
Report from PUNCH stated that the doctor was said to have contracted the disease while treating a pregnant 29- year- old woman, a health official with the Lagos State Government, who sneaked into the state and received treatment in three different hospitals before COVID - 19 test was conducted on her.
Yaya - Kolade, who said, “ Yes, we have one doctor who tested positive and he is being treated at the isolation centre”, added that the results of 15 others turned out to be negative among the blood samples taken to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control .
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