39 quarantined individuals show no symptoms of coronavirus ― Ogun health commissioner

The Ogun State Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, has said that the 39 quarantined individuals over their contact with the Italian national, have shown no sign of the coronavirus disease.

She stated this while addressing senior pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), at the Redemption Camp, on Tuesday.

Coker also said that the index case transferred from the State to Lagos is responding to treatment at the isolation centre.

“We all know that Coronavirus is a global emergency. The index case, a 44-year old Italian national who was transferred from Ogun State to the Bio-Security laboratory is responding to treatment. Even the people who have been quarantined are not developing any symptoms.

“ The need to keep spreading the message of personal hygiene at different levels is very important. Hence, we want to solicit your support in fighting this disease,” she said.

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The commissioner said there was a need to sensitise members of the public through different faith-based organisations while calling on religious leaders to join the government in the enlightenment campaign.

She said that the present administration had deemed it fit to meet with a faith-based organisation with the message of personal hygiene such that will cascade to local government and wards, stressing that health educators have been deployed to the hinterlands to sensitize the rural dwellers.

The Commissioner presented some packs of hand sanitiser to the church as a gesture from the state government.

The Team Lead, African Region, World Health Organisation ( WHO), Prof. Bola Olayinka, in her remarks, underscored the need for social distancing in the event of respiratory tract infection, urging that the habit of touching face and other parts of the body without washing hands should be discouraged.

“The person who is coughing or sneezing is expected to use a mask, not the other way round as it is been abused nowadays. It is ideal you use tissue paper when you blow your nose or cough and dispose of it immediately.

” We crave for the entire world to play their parts in reducing the transmission of coronavirus,” she said.

Responding, the Assistant General Overseer ( Administration), Pastor Odesola, thanked Ogun State Government for the gesture, promising that the pastors will not fail to spread the good news of personal hygiene in their various localities.

Meanwhile, the Emergency Operations Committee ( EOC) on Covid-19 has conducted training for Disease Surveillance and Notification Officer (DSNO) as well as Monitoring and Evaluation Officers in the 20 local government areas of the state with a firm call on them to go to their various locations to effectively educate the people about the disease.