The Federal government is said that with circumstantial evidence investigations suggested between 50 to 60 per-cent of notable Kano state unexplained death may have been triggered by or due to commit 19 in the face of pre-existing ailments
The minister of health Dr Osage Ehanire said this on Monday in Abuja at the 41st joint national Covid-19 briefing of the presidential task force PTF on Covid-19.
He said that most fatalities were over 65 years of age. There was outrage over the high number of deaths with notable individuals in Kano jigawa and some other States.
With regards to unexplained deaths in Kano which occurred in April the team confirmed from graveyard records that a total of 979 deaths were recorded in 8 municipal LGA’s in the state at a rate of 43 deaths per day with the peak in the second week of April.
By the beginning of May the death rate had reduced to 11 deaths per day it used to be
The verbal all Topsy revealed that about 56% of deaths had occurred at home while 38% were in hospitals
With circumstantial evidence as all to go by, investigations suggested that between 50 to 60% of the deaths may have been triggered by or due to Covid-19 in the face of pre-existing illness. Most fatalities were over 65 years of age Ehanire Said.
The presidential technical team deployed to karnal to support the state committee in upscale in its response to cover the 19 on May the 3rd said coronavirus was responsible for the mass deaths recorded in the state at that time.
Leader of the team doctor Nancy does Sonny grosso disclosed this in an interview with journalists in karnal during the official presentation and handing over of the mobile testing laboratory donated by Aliko Dangote foundation to the state government.
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