COVID-19: Kano Launches Aggressive Contact Tracing Of 259 Persons As Confirmed Cases Hit 73

Kano State Taskforce on COVID -19 has begun an aggressive search for 259 persons suspected to have had direct or indirect contact with 73 confirmed cases registered in the state.

Dr Tijjani Hussain, the Kano state Coordinator of the COVID-19 Task force, told newsmen in Kano that the figures was out of the the listed 300 contact persons in the state.

Dr Hussain said: “One of the hall mark of this response is contact tracing, and at the moment, we have listed over 300 contacts person and we are following up on 259 of these contacts.
He stressed: “These contacts, we are following them either through phone or visit them physically to their houses to ensure that we have not left any stone unturned.”


The COVID-19 Coordinator explained that,”over these 13 days since we recorded the first index case, we are able to have 320 suspected cases out of which 73 are laboratory confirmed.
“Similarly, two of these 73 confirmed cases are health workers. Since the beginning of this outbreak, we were able to monitor 53 cases of passengers of interest (those people who came from high risk areas outside of Nigeria and states faced with high challenges of covid-19).

He disclosed that “we have also admit 63 out of the 73 cases and the remaining will be evacuated to the isolation centers.

Speaking further, Dr Hussain said “at the moment, we have listed over 300 contacts person and we are following up on 259 of these contacts. These contacts, we follow them either through phone or visit them physically to their houses to ensure that we have not leave any stone unturned.
“As we have learnt, while we have momentary setback last week because our co-chair was diagnosed with covid-19, but the state government quickly put up another structure to ensure that the coordination mechanism does not break down.

He revealed that “we have reconstituted and we are much stronger now. So kano people should be confident that this outbreak would be brought under control as soon as possible.
According to him “we are also going to rapidly set up rapid response teams that will go and do investigation, take samples and ensure that these samples are delivered in our laboratories.

Dr Husssain said “we are in the process of increasing the number of rapid response team from 30 to 40, adding that “our testing centers do not run out of commodities.

https://ebonyitvnews.com/2020/04/24/covid-19-kano-launches-aggressive-contact-tracing-of-259-persons/

You guys are in deep sh*t.

Dirty state. Dirty people. Dirty leaders.
I see Covid19 x Max Pro loading in one of the dirtiest part of Nigeria. At least they have collected and greedily shared all the Covid19 pallatives while hoping the people in the South will die of hunger. Let’s see if power and money can save the most barbaric and backward tribe in Africa. This time we will see how sophisticated and intelligent Bubu’s bush cabinet really.

I hope they succeed at this endeavour because what we see emerging in Kano is more like COVID-19 triple-x.

If That Is True, Expect 'More" In Less Time In That Area. May God Help Us,

Medicine after death

E don happen

Humn! Take caution these ignorant people are sticking to religion.Shit is getting really.Kano is just playing with Covid19 fire.

Goodluck