The Kano State government has extended the lockdown in the state by a week to contain the spread of coronavirus in the state.
The Commissioner for Information in the state, Muhammed Garba, made this known in a statement issued on behalf of the government late Monday.
The government said the measure was aimed at further reducing person-to-person contacts, considered as one of the major ways the disease was being spread. As per the update of the National Centre for Disease Control , the state had discharged 63 persons as at 11:45 p.m. of May 11, 2020.
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