COVID-19: Kano govt begins contact tracing tied to five infected Almajiri children

The Kano State Government has commenced the contact tracing to the five Almajiri pupils who tested positive for coronavirus in Kaduna State.

The Kaduna State Government had on Monday, announced that five of the 195 Almajiri children evacuated from Kano tested positive for the virus.

In a swift reaction, the Kano State Commissioner for Education, Muhammad Sanusi, said on Monday the government would conduct contact tracing of the Almajiri schools where the affected children were evacuated to their states of origin.

Sunusi said the decision followed a report by the Kaduna State government that five of the Almajiri children evacuated from Kano to the state tested positive to the virus.

The commissioner, who is also the Chairman of the Almajiri Evacuation Committee, disclosed that children were screened to ascertain their health status before they were conveyed to Kaduna and other states.

He said: “Although, before we evacuated those children to their various states of origin, we provided some medical personnel to check their health status.

“During the preliminary medical checks their temperature was normal.

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“We have records of all the evacuated Almajiri children, we know which Tsangaya school they belong, therefore, we are going to trace those schools to stem the spread of the virus.”

Kano State government had evacuated over 1, 000 Almajiri children to Katsina, Jigawa, and Kaduna States in the last one week.

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