The Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, said his administration had concluded arrangements for the take-off of the state’s COVID-19 testing centre as testing for Coronavirus would begin at the centre before the end of the week.

Dr Fayemi comfirmed this during an on-the-spot assessment of facilities at the expanded Infectious Disease Unit at the Oba Adejugbe General Hospital in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital.

Fayemi addressing reporters after the inspection, explained that the testing centre would help the state to test as many people as possible as part of government’s efforts to contain the spread of the Coronavirus adding that the expansion of the state’s isolation centre to a 100-bed capacity is a proactive step to prepare against a possible surge in the number of patients.

According to him, the development has justified government’s plan to expand the centre to a 100-bed capacity.

“We are expanding our infectious disease hospital’s bed space. As you know, we have just a 10-bed space in the one we are using now. But there is an increase and we have to prepare for the worse while we hope for the best”. Fayemi said.