Yobe State has within the last five weeks recorded 471 deaths across five local government areas in the state. Vice-Chairman, COVID-19 Committee on Prevention and Control, Dr. Lawan Gana, disclosed this in Damaturu while presenting 'Yobe State Verbal Autopsy Preliminary Findings' triggered by the recent reported mass deaths in the state. He said the death
Yobe State has within the last five weeks recorded 471 deaths across five local government areas in the state.
He said the death rate was looked for five weeks starting from last week of April to date, admitting that there were about 471 deaths reported within the period as indicated by the findings. He, however, noted that the geospatial maps showed no clustering mortalities as 90% of those that died had no travel history outside the state. “90 per cent of the cases did not have symptoms that were consistent with COVID-19.
“All the 3 persons were from Potiskum and their samples have been collated and sent for testing and all of the 3 are in self isolation”, he said.
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