Ekiti state has recorded 180 new COVID-19 cases between July and August.
The commissioner for Health and Human Services. Dr Oyebanji Filani confirmed this at a news conference in Ado Ekiti.
Dr Filani explained that 95 cases were recorded in July while 85 cases had been recorded so far in the month of August.
To this end, the commissioner announced that government would revisit some of the precautionary measures put in the place in the past to avoid further spread.
According to him, a task force will be set up to enforce the rules which include mandatory wearing of mask, ban on social gathering of more than fifty persons including religious gathering with strict compliance to provision of soap and water for hand washing.
Dr Filani announced that the patients were stable and government had three isolation centres with necessary facilities to manage them.
