Kano lacks adequate manpower for surveillance, contact tracing – PTF Adelani Adepegba, Leke Baiyewu, Tobi Aworinde, Dayo Ojerinde, Tukur Muntari, Chima Azubuike and Armstrong Bakam The Presidential
Task Force on COVID-19 at the House of Representatives on Tuesday said Kano State had become the epicentre of coronavirus in the North.
Mustapha expressed concern over the spread of the disease in Kano State. “Kano is fast emerging as the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the North, which necessitated Mr President’s specific directives in his broadcast of Monday, 27th April, 2020,” he said. He said, “Truly, we have got to the level or stage of personal responsibility. This is where we have got to now. We must take personal responsibility for our safety, our lives and those of our loved ones. This is not the time to expect government or the National Assembly to take responsibility for us. At individual level, this is the time that we must own up.
He said, “You also purportedly said that no one consulted you. I will like a clarification on those two statements.” The Minister of Health, Ehanire, while responding to a question on clinical trial of drugs and vaccines, said the government had already begun application of drugs in the treatment of patients in Lagos and Abuja.
Ehanire also said the government had not ruled out the possibility of using local herbs to fight the disease. He, however, stated that the Nigeria Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development must first certify the efficacy of such local drugs. He said most of the infection in some states of the north was a result of people travelling to such states from Kano.
The state Commissioner for Information, Mr Gbenga Omotosho, disclosed this in an interview with The PUNCH, as the Federal Capital Territory disclosed that it was battling a shortage of test kits. “The truth is that Lagos is battling with shortage of reagents, but we will keep on collecting samples.”YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:The FCT Administration also said that it was facing a shortage of test kits for COVID-19.The Special Assistant to the FCT minister, Abubakar Sani, explained on Tuesday that “The FCT is facing the global challenge of a shortage of test kits.”
While giving an update on the COVID-19 cases in the state on Tuesday, the state governor said 57 samples were taken from contacts of infected persons in five local government areas out of which 32 tested positive.Coronavirus patients at the isolation centre in Kwadon, Gombe State on Tuesday protested what they referred to as their abandonment by the state government.
He said, “It is really unfortunate that there was disquiet at the Kwadon isolation centre. It was caused by the patients there. They predicated their grievances on three premises, one that they were not given drugs, or medication. It will interest all of us to know that all of them there are asymptomatic, meaning they don’t have symptoms.
A COVID-19 patient at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital Isolation centre in Bauchi, on his twitter handle on Monday, said that he had yet to get any food from the government.
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