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COVID-19: Oyo Govt Highlights Symptoms of Delta Variant, Preventive Measure

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July 13, 2021

Dr Olabode Ladipo, the Oyo State Incident Manager and Coordinator of the Emergency Operations Centre, says “the Delta variant has virtually the same symptoms as the earlier ones: coughs, breathlessness, but with this variant, which is more transmissible, significantly, there is muscular pain and more of diarrhoea”.

According to Ladipo; “It is not true that the Delta variant doesn’t have symptoms, it does have symptoms,” he said.

The state’s Incident Manager also refutes claims that the COVID-19 Delta variant has killed two persons in the state.

Ladipo made the clarification while speaking with newsmen on Monday in Ibadan, following reports in some online media that two residents of the state were killed by the deadly virus.

“That the Delta variant killed two people in the state was not what I said.

“As part of our surveillance strategy for COVID-19, we took samples from quite a number of people, including some dead persons.

“We sent the samples to The African Centre of Excellence for the Genomics of Infectious Disease (ACEGID), Redeemer’s University, Ede, Osun State.

“We then discovered that some of the cases had the Delta variant of the Coronavirus.

“I didn’t say that those dead persons were killed by the Delta variant; let us not create unnecessary public panic,” he said.

According to him, I made it clear that the sample was taken after death, and so it would be unfair to say they died from complications of the Delta strain.