More COVID-19 Patients Recover in Kano after Sallah

POLITICS DIGEST– After the initial surge in COVID-19 cases in Kano, the State has recently seen a significant improvement in its sustained fight to defeat the pandemic as the number of infections, deaths and discharged cases are reassuring on the efforts.

Due to the ravaging coronavirus pandemic, countries across the world were in total lockdown to prevent the spread of the virus leading to the ban of religious gatherings, while markets, restaurants and malls were all closed.

Apart from Lagos, Kano has the highest number of COVID-19 cases in Nigeria. A week before Sallah, Kano recorded 896 confirmed cases, 133 discharged and 36 death casualties. The confirmed cases relatively increased after sallah with 951 and the death cases increased from 36 to 43 as of the 30th of May 2020.

It is amazing that the state witnessed a skyrocketing figure of discharged patients jumping from 133 in the previous week to 200 a week after Sallah.

As the Federal Government lift ban on lockdown in Kano with the state government giving guidelines of protocol in its effort to open markets for people to continue with their normal business; Politics Digest takes a look at the rising and decreasing number of COVID-19 cases in the state from the week of eidl fitr celebration and aftermath.

When contacted over the development, a medical doctor in the department of Community Medicine at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Dr Usman Bashir said that the increase in the number of confirmed cases is not enough, more testing should be done looking at the population of the state.

“The recovered number of patients and confirmed cases are not encouraging, as lockdown is not sustainable. The government has to come up with an effective strategy in fighting the virus and people need to cooperate in a collective effort to reduce if not eradicate the risk.”
When asked if the state was winning the battle against the pandemic, Dr Usman simply replied thus: “We have not reached the stage of general assessment. The government must nevertheless do more especially testing.”

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