MORE COVID-19 infections have been recorded among Corps members, with 35 testing positive at the NYSC Orientation camp in Sagamu, Ogun State.
Health Commissioner Dr. Tomi Coker disclosed this yesterday in Abeokuta while briefing reporters on the upsurge of the third wave of the virus in the State.
SUNRISE NEWS reports that Mrs. Coker said some of the infected Corps members had been confined to isolation centres. Others, she said, were on home management.
The commissioner lamented that 69,178 of those who took the first jabs of the AstraZeneca COVID -19 did not return for the second doses.
She said: “The number of NYSC members that have tested positive for Coronavirus is 35. Some are on home management, while some are in the isolation centre.”
The commissioner expressed concern that Ogun had continued to record increases in cases of the infection since the beginning of August with at least seven to 16 cases per day.
The commissioner said: “Ogun State has continued to record a rise in the number of Coronavirus cases with a six-fold increase in admissions into isolation centres compared to what was recorded two months earlier.
”In June, there were only two cases, while in July we recorded a sharp rise to 96 cases. The first three days in August has also seen a rise in positivity rate of 14.6 per cent.
“The Isolation Ward at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, which had only two admissions in June, currently has 12 persons on admission.
“The isolation ward at Ikenne has 35 admissions, with 71 on home management.
“Death toll had remained relatively static at 50 till July 15 after which we recorded seven deaths in the last two weeks.
“In the last one week, there has been a sharp rise in new cases from seven per day to 16 per day,’’ Coker said.
On vaccination, the commissioner expressed worry that only a little fraction of the state’s population had been vaccinated.
She urged residents to embrace vaccination, saying “our observation so far is that all mortalities are the unvaccinated.’’
According to her, the 126,631 people that took the first jabs represented 136 per cent of the target population for the Phase I.
But 57,453, she lamented, were vaccinated for the second dose, stressing that the foregoing figures represent a very small fraction of the population in the state.
She urged residents to avail themselves of another opportunity that has just come with the commencement the second phase of the vaccination across the state.