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The government also said that it had quarantined seven men who forcefully entered the state from Kano and three other females who came from Oyo State.The woman, who came from Katsina to visit her husband, a military man working in Ekiti State, was discovered to be COVID-19 positive after her husband alerted the task force when she started manifesting symptoms.

“Though it was the husband who alerted us, but it was an offence against the state and the Ministry of Justice will take appropriate actions against her at the right time,” she said. Besides, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Public Health, Dr. Jimlas Ogunsakin, revealed that seven people who returned to the state from Kano and three other females who forcefully entered Ekiti had been quarantined.

The Deputy Governor, Otunba Bisi Egbeyemi, in a statement yesterday by his Special Assistant , Odunayo Ogunmola, said security agencies had been empowered to scrutinise the goods being transported into the state to look out for persons who may be hiding to enter illegally and to ensure that illegal goods are not brought into the state.

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