Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu
By Our Reporter
Another COVID-19 drama played out yesterday when an Ondo State based journalist listed among those who tested positive for Coronavirus denied testing positive.
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu announced the result of his test alongside that of a cleric and a nurse by during the weekly update on COVID-19 in the state.
The journalist (names withheld) said that he only had malaria fever and not Coronavirus.
He added that he had recovered from malaria three weeks before he was invited for COVID-19 test by health officials tracing others with the virus.
According to him, ‘When I arrived at the Infectious Disease Hospital in Akure, I was isolated and placed under watch by officials’.
He said that on his first day at the facility another test was conducted on him and it turned out negative.
“Yet they refused to release me not until after eight days at the isolation centre in Akure”. He concluded.
