149 OUT OF 240 CORONAVIRUS CASES IN OYO FROM ONE ORGANISATION
Oluseye Ojo, Ibadan
Fresh figures of confirmed cases of COVID-19 pandemic in Oyo State have revealed that just one organisation in Ibadan, iSON Xperiences, an outsourcing Indian firm handling customer care services for telecommunication companies in Nigeria and other countries, has the lion share (149) of a total of 240 cases of coronavirus in the state as of Sunday, May 24, 2020.
The confirmed cases in the state would have been 91 as of May 24th, but for the organisation that caused the spike in the number of confirmed cases within nine days, starting from May 16th to May 24th.
The last, it seems, has not been heard on the number of confirmed cases in the organisation, with two centres in Ibadan – one at Oba Adebimpe Road, Dugbe and the other one at Adamasingba.
In the update of May 24th given by Governor Seyi Makinde, the COVID-19 confirmation tests for seven suspected cases returned positive, with six coming from iSON Xperiences and one from Ibadan South West Local Government Area, upping the total number of confirmed cases in the state to 240.
The first 30 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the company were announced by the governor in the update of May 16th, though a total of 31 new cases were announced for the day, and by the following day, the number increased to 38 after the company recorded eight of the 11 new cases in the state. The same organisation also had all the 19 new cases announced in the update of May 18th.
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