The Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El Rufai, announced that the state has recorded two fresh deaths from COVID-19 pandemic, which brings the total deaths so far to three in the state.

Kaduna state recorded its first fatality on May 2, 2020 when the victim who was a retired civil servant who concealed his travel history to Kano,  died before the result of his test came out.

The latest deaths, according to the governor in his twitter handle, are a senior citizen from Makarfi and a lady from Zaria.

El-Rufai in the tweet, also disclosed that two more persons had tested positive, brining the active COVID-19 cases in the state to 87.

According to the tweet which was released at 11.04 pm on Saturday, the two new cases are a male from Igabi and a female from the Chikun Local Government Area of the state.

El-Rufai had on Friday raised the alarm that illegal interstate travel was widening the spread of the coronavirus in the state.

The governor who spoke through his Special Adviser on Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye, in a statement, noted that majority of COVID-19 cases in the state had travel history.

El-Rufai added that inter state travel had increased the danger of community transmission as infections have “now been recorded in some mainly rural local governments on the borders of the state.”

Source: https://fojusi.com/covid-19-kaduna-records-two-new-death/

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