2020, shows the infected student while writing an examination at
the Infectious Disease Centre in Ilorin.
A Senior Secondary School student in her final year,
infected with COVID-19, is writing the West African Senior School
Certificate Examination in Kwara State.
Unlike her colleagues who are present at the respective venues
in the state, the patient is taking the examination from an
isolation centre where she is being monitored.
Channels Television visited the Kwara State COVID-19
Infectious Disease Centre in Ilorin, the state capital on
Wednesday.
2020, shows the signboard of the Kwara State COVID-19 Infectious
Disease Centre in Ilorin.
The 16-year-old female student, whose name and school were
withheld to avoid stigma, wrote her Agricultural Science paper
under close supervision by an official of the West African
Examination Council (WAEC).
The Team Lead/Manager Case Management Team at the centre, Dr
Kudirat Oladeji-Lambe, briefed reporters on the health status of
the patient.
She said, “She (the patient) is asymptomatic, which means she
does not show any symptoms and she’s stable. She is just here to
observe her two weeks isolation process.”
2020, shows a WAEC examination paper of the infected student at the
Infectious Disease Centre in Ilorin.
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Oladeji-Lambe confirmed that the patient was mentally and
physically fit to write her examinations, adding that she had a
contact with a close relative of her who tested positive.
She disclosed that the patient ended up at the isolation centre
after she was confirmed positive for COVID-19 through contact
tracing.
“The candidate was admitted yesterday (Tuesday). She missed a
paper yesterday and we informed the authorities because as child
advocates, once she had enrolled for WAEC, the government felt she
has the right to write her papers.
“That’s why the state government thought it wise to arrange for
her in order not to miss other papers,” said the medical
practitioner.
She added, “The state government deemed it fit to arrange for
her to have a safe place for her to write the exam without the fear
of stigmatisation or risk to other students.”
According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC),
Kwara State has confirmed 913 cases of COVID-19, out of which 244
are active with 646 recoveries and 23 fatalities.
