Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has faulted the report by the Federal Government that over 50 per cent of the about 1,000 deaths recorded in the state in April were associated with COVID-19.
had earlier reported that the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, at a Presidential Task Force briefing in Abuja, said a total ofThe minister had said, “With regards to the unexplained deaths which occurred in Kano over a five-week period, the team confirmed that a total of 979 deaths were actually recorded in eight Municipal Local Government Areas in the state and at a time at the rate of 43 deaths per day as measured by counting activities at the graveyard.
According to him, the report partly read, “A retrospective study of mortalities was conducted over approximately 2-weeks ; across 8 metropolitan LGAs .
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