kano state death – As the deadly coronavirus continues to spread rapidly in Nigeria with over 600 confirmed cases and Kano State having 59 cases according to the NCDC’s April 20 reports. There was serious fear and panic in the state as over 150 persons have reportedly died of unknown causes.
According to the report, over 150 people died in Kano between Friday and Saturday last week, as their cause of death remains unknown.
There are fears that the deceased must have died as a result of a strange ailment, amid the recent coronavirus outbreak.
The report noted that figure of the dead buried in the three cemeteries excludes other people buried in dozens of burial grounds in the eight local government areas that constitute Kano metropolis, though those working in such cemeteries said they did not notice anything unusual.
Also, authorities in Kano, community leaders, families of the deceased and medical officials have given different opinion on the matter with the state ministry of health saying it was investigating the matter.
Attendants and undertakers across the three cemeteries that witnessed unusual burials described the current regularity of burials in the city as unprecedented, urging the government to as a matter of urgency investigate to ascertain the real cause.
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kano state death – The Kano State Ministry of Health yesterday, called for calm saying the ministry had already launched an investigation to unravel the real cause of the deaths in the state.
In a related news, a video footage surfaced online showing residents of Kano flouting the federal and state government social distancing directives as they gathered in their numbers to see a football match.
Watch the video below:
Recall that Nigeria on Monday 20 April 2020, recorded 36 new cases of the novel coronavirus pandemic, bringing total Covid-19 cases in the country to 665.
According to Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), the new 36 cases were discovered in Kano, Gombe, Kaduna, Borno, Abia, FCT, Sokoto, Ekiti.
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