Ondo state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu tests positive for Coronavirus (video)

Ondo state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu tests positive for Coronavirus (video)

Governor Rotimi Akeredelo, has tested positive for the novel Coronavirus.

The 63-year-old Ondo state governor announced this at a press conference in Akure, the state capital today June 30.

”I had malaria a few days ago and was treated. I did get over it and as at the time we had our party NEC and my colleagues called on me, I spoke with one of them who felt that malaria shouldn’t be treated lightly but that I should go ahead and have a test for COVID19.

The result come out today June 30 and I tested positive. 

I am asymptommatic. I am not feeling sick nor feeling hot in anyway but my doctors have decided I should take the normal treatment and self isolate. I beleieve that supervised home management will be ideal for me for now and so from now I will be isolated and go on with the supervised home management” he said

Ondo state currently has 276 confirmed cases of COVID-19.