Two health workers test positive for COVID-19 in Kano

Kano State government said on Wednesday two health workers had tested positive for COVID-19 in the state.

The Coordinator of the state Task Force Committee on COVID-19, Dr. Tijjani Hussaini, who disclosed this in a chat with journalists, said the two health workers were among the 73 who had tested positive for the disease in the state.

He said: “Since we recorded the index case, we are able to trace 320 suspected cases out of which 73 were confirmed in the laboratory.

“Similarly, two of these 73 confirmed cases are health workers. Since the beginning of this outbreak, we were able to monitor 53 cases of passengers of interest (those people who came from high-risk areas outside of Nigeria and states faced with high challenges of COVID-19).

“We have also admitted 63 out of the 73 cases and by the end of today (Wednesday) the remaining will be evacuated to the isolation centres.

“One of the hallmarks of this response is contact tracing. At the moment, we have listed over 300 contacts person and we are following up on 259 of these contacts. These contacts, we follow them either through phone or visit them physically to their houses to ensure that we have not left any stone unturned.

“We also set up rapid response teams that will go and do an investigation, take samples and ensure that these samples are delivered in our laboratories. We are in the process of increasing the number of rapid response team from 30 to 40.

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“As we have learnt, while we have momentary setback last week because our co-chair was diagnosed with COVID-19, but the state government quickly put up another structure to ensure that the coordination mechanism does not break down. We have reconstituted and we are much stronger now. So Kano people should be confident that this outbreak would be put under control as soon as possible.”

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