Connect with us

News

We’re now free of Covid-19, Zamfara govt says, as it discharges last five patients

Published

on

Bello-Matawalle

The government of Zamfara has declared the state Covid-19 free after the discharge of the last five patients in the state.

The state Commissioner for Health, Yahaya Kanoma confirmed this to Channels Television on Saturday.

Zamfara has so far recorded 76 cases of the dreaded pandemic.

READ ALSO: Come live in Zamfara, Gov Matawalle tells Almajiris rejected by other northern states

Kanoma said of that number, 71 were treated and discharged, from isolation centres, after they recovered from the infection.

He added that the remaining five patients lost their lives due to the virus disease.

The commissioner went further to say that Covid-19 test were conducted on 198 samples and that 102 of them returned negative.

Join the conversation

Opinions

Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism

Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.

As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.

If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.

Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.

Donate Now