The Director, Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Bayero University, Kano; Professor Isa Abubakar has faulted Kano State Government's submission on the decline in the number of Coronavirus infected Persons in the State. The Director warned that the said decline by Governor Ganduje is not in any way a sign of relief on the spread of
The Director, Centre for Infectious Diseases Research, Bayero University, Kano; Professor Isa Abubakar has faulted Kano State Government’s submission on the decline in the number of Coronavirus infected Persons in the State.
Professor Isa Abubakar, expressed worry over the decline in the number of samples being supplied to the state epidemiology team for COVID-19 tests. The professor of infections and epidemiology who lamented the poor number of samples especially from Kano, insisted that the present decline in the number of active cases in the state is not a sign of relief.
“We need to up our game to ramp up tests in Kano as well as other neighboring states that we are serving so that we know the actual picture of the pandemic in our community so that we take all necessary measures to isolate the positive cases for treatment and also search for more cases and intervention”. Professor Abubakar explained.
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