43 persons died per day in Kano over 5 weeks – FG .

The Federal Government says its findings revealed that 43 persons died of strange illnesses per day in Kano over a five-week period, totaling 979 people. .

Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, stated this on Monday in Abuja during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. He said an investigation carried out by the special team sent to the state revealed that 50 to 60 per cent of the deaths were associated with coronavirus .

The minister also said the majority of the fatalities were over 65 years old and more than half of the deaths occurred at home. He said, “With the observation and recommendations of the three-week assignment, the committee developed strategic incident management and coordination plan to strengthen the capacity of the health workers and improve community engagement in line with our response plan .

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. “The healthcare workers in Kano and the northern part of our country had become very jittery at the advent of coronavirus disease and had stopped or slowed down attending to other patients which led to complications in the health delivery.

“Many of them have become infected. Over 150 health workers were infected at the time of the arrival of the team. “After they conducted their training on infection prevention and control, there was no report on the infection recorded among the health workers .

This way, their confidence was restored and service was also restored in essential and routine case management and also COVID-19 management.

“With regards to the unexplained deaths which occurred in Kano over a five-week period, the team confirmed that a total of 979 deaths were actually recorded in eight Municipal Local Government Areas in the state and at a time at the rate of 43 deaths per day as measured by counting activities at the graveyard .

“The peak was in the second week of April and by the end of April, the numbers have started to reduced and have finally now settled at eleven deaths per day which were about what it was before.”