Nasidi Nuhu, former director Bayero University Health Services; Yusuf Wakili Yola, a journalist; Ubale Ibrahim, Kannywood actor, are among the latest
Nasidi Nuhu, former director Bayero University Health Services; Yusuf Wakili Yola, a journalist; Ubale Ibrahim, Kannywood actor, are among the latest persons to have died in Kano in the last 24 hours, TheCable is reporting.
Among the deaths recorded on Thursday are those of Aliyu Daneji, father of Sani Aliyu, national coordinator of the presidential task force; Khadijah Abdallah, wife of Kabiru Bayero, a former ambassador; and Tijjani Yarwa, a businessman based at Kwanar Jaba in Nassarawa local government area of Kano.
Kano has been hit by a wave of deaths since it recorded its index COVID-19 case in April. Sabitu Shuaibu, deputy coordinator of the task force on COVID-19, had reportedly said 640 persons died in the state within one week. The spike in deaths had made many residents panic, with rumors making the round that the deaths are from COVID-19 complications.
But the government dismissed the rumor, attributing the deaths to diabetes, malaria and hypertension.
President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered a two-week lockdown and a probe of the deaths. The Kano government and the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) later decided on verbal autopsy to ascertain the cause of the unusual deaths.
Verbal autopsy is a method of gathering information about symptoms and circumstances that led to the death of an individual in order to determine the probable cause of death in cases where there was no medical record or formal medical attention given.
However despite the strange deaths, the state governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, appealed for an urgent ease of the 14-day total lockdown the federal government imposed on the state. According to him, it is important to relax the lockdown for a while in order to ease the hardship in the state, especially in the holy month of Ramadan.
