The Jigawa State government on Friday confirmed that two health workers, and 24 additional almajiris repatriated from Kano State tested positive for...
repatriated from Kano State tested positive for COVID-19.
The state’s commissioner for health, Abba Zakari, told reporters late Friday that the health workers contracted the disease at Federal Medical Centre, Birnin-Kudu and Rasheed Shekoni Specialist Hospital in Dutse.Almajiris Mr Zakari, who is also the chairman Jigawa taskforce on COVID-19, said an additional 24 samples of the returning almajiris tested positive. The state had earlier announced that 16 of the recently expelled almajiris tested positive.
The development is terrifying because only 148 out of 607 samples of the returning almajiris have so far been tested while 40 are already positive, Mr Zakari said.
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