COVID-19: FG team arrives Kano, meets Governor Ganduje

The Federal Government’s team sent to Kano to shore up efforts at containing the rapid spread of COVID-19 pandemic in that state arrived on Tuesday.

The team, led by Dr. Sani Gwarzo met with state Governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, on the directive of President Muhammadu Buhari.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor, Abba Anwar, said the team led by Gwarzo met with Ganduje at the Africa House, Government House, Kano.

Besides Gwarzo, others in the committee are a former Director General of the NCDC, Prof Abdussalam Nasidi, and the Head of the Department of Health Services at the Federal Ministry of Health, Dr Bimpe Adebiyi.

According to Anwar, Gwarzo said the team members were in Kano to find out what the state needed to contain COVID-19.

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“President Buhari directed us to do everything possible to support, reinforce and mobilise support even beyond the nation.

“Your Excellency in the special committee sent to Kano to work with the state government are experts in public health and other areas.

“In the special committee there are people like Prof Abdussalam Nasidi, the pioneer Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Contre, who is a professor of infectious diseases.

“There is also Dr Bimpe Adebiyi, who heads the Department of Health Services at the Federal Ministry of Health”, the statement quoted Gwarzo as saying.

In his remarks, Governor Ganduje thanked the President for coming to the aid of the state, restating his earlier call for more testing centres in the state, saying, “a testing centre is the nucleus of the fight against COVID-19.”

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