Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State on Monday announced that two persons have tested positive to Coronavirus.

The Governor disclosed this while addressing journalists in his private residence in Iperu, in Ikenne Local government.

Abiodun said with the new cases the total number of cases recorded so far in the state was now six.

The new cases were not contacts of the previous cases and do not have recent travel history.

The Governor disclosed that the two cases were recorded in Obafemi-Owode and Yewa South Local government Areas of the state.

“The fight against coronavirus is a relentless one and the reality of it stares us in the face with increasing figures of the number of positive cases and deaths globally and even on our stores,” he said.

“And today, I have the unpleasant task of announcing two new positive cases in Ogun state today, bringing the total to six from the index case identified late February.

“Though out of the six cases, three have been discharged and one is also responding to treatment and on the verge of being discharged, the two new cases may be erroneously considered few but certainly very significant.

“One of the cases is from Obafemi-Owode Local Government in Ogun Central while the other is from Yewa South in Ogun west, thus each of the three Senatorial Districts in the state has one case at least.

“This is significant particularly when the two new cases have no recent travel history or close contact with any positive case with travel history.

“Indeed one of them is from Mowe, a border town with Lagos State.

“They have since been moved to one of our isolation centres in the state. It is therefore important for us all to protect ourselves and our community from this invisible but dangerous virus by observing all the guidelines and shed off any carefree attitude that some may have been adopting towards the virus .”

While speaking on the contract tracing, Abiodun said as of now, the state could not ascertain the number of contacts that the new cases had had contact with since they contracted the virus.

He said the state had commenced the process of contact tracing.

He said,

“The process of tracing the contacts has commenced. Neither I nor my Commissioner of Health can tell you for now how many contacts these two people have had contact with.”

While speaking on the plan to curb the further spread, the Governor hinted that the state would begin mobile testing of residents of the state through the state-of-the-art mobile test facilities.

He, however, announced that the state government had lifted the order of restriction movement between 7:am and 2:pm on Tuesday and any other day.