Yobe State has reportedly buried Sixty-eight persons in Potiskum local government area of Yobe state within the space three days.
However, the number of deaths recorded has not to be linked to the coronavirus but people are living in fear of the unknown.
Speaking on the situation, the Commissioner for Health Mohammed Lawan Gana and Vice-Chairman of the State Committee on the Prevention and Control of COVID-19 said the state is currently investigating the strange deaths.
He said, “These rumors happened. People die due to various causes. We may not say it is a coronavirus. When this kind of thing happens. We have our standard ways of doing things. We have sent out a team to go to the local government to establish that these deaths are happening and the causes.”
“But in addition to that, we have a built-in intervention, to fish out active case files. We want people to come to the health facilities and not to fear to come. We call on the media to help us solve the problem not to escalate any negative rumors.”
Confirming the report, a graveyard attendant in Potiskum told reporters that, “Oga, we don’t know why people are dying like this. We too want to know what the problem is but we don’t know. We want the government to find out and tell us what is happening.
“But it is only journalists that are calling us and asking us questions. No government official has come to the graveyard to ask us anything.”
He stated that the bodies have been buried in the following graveyard in this order, ” NEPA (seven); Garin Jaji eight); Gishua Dabua (six) and Bayin Asibiti (four) and 10 graves have been dug by Mamman Ali Cemetery attendants.
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