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CORONAVIRUS: Panic As Kano Records 150 Deaths In 3 Days
– With the emergence of new cases of coronavirus in the country, Kano records over 150 deaths in 3 days
– There are fears that the deceased must have died as a result of a strange ailment, amid the recent coronavirus outbreak
– Undertakers who double as grave diggers express concern over mysterious death toll
Following new cases of coronavirus in some states within the country, over 150 people who reportedly died in Kano between Friday and Saturday last week have been buried in three cemeteries, heightening fears that the deceased died as a result of strange ailment.
According to the report by DailyTrust, undertakers who doubled as gravediggers in the affected cemeteries said the frequency at which they received corpses these days was unusual when compared with the number of people they buried before the coronavirus outbreak.
The figure of the dead buried in the three cemeteries excludes other people buried in dozens of burial grounds in the eight local government areas that constitute Kano metropolis, though those working in such cemeteries said they did not notice anything unusual.
Meanwhile, authorities in Kano, community leaders, families of the deceased and medical officials have given a different opinion on the matter with the state ministry of health saying it was investigating the matter.
Our correspondents report that the development has thrown many residents of the city into palpable fears even as they nurse the suspicion of possible community transmission of the ravaging COVID-19 within the state capital, which has a population of over four million people.
Out of the 44 local government areas in Kano State, eight of them are not far from the state capital.
They are Nasarawa, Gwale, Dala, Ungogo, Fagge, Tarauni, Kumbotso and Municipal.
As of Monday, April 20, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said Kano had a total of 59 confirmed COVID-19 cases and one death.
Attendants and undertakers across the three cemeteries that witnessed unusual burials described the current regularity of burials in the city as unprecedented, urging the government to as a matter of urgency investigate to ascertain the real cause.
An undertaker identified simply as Bashir Mohammed, at the Dandolo Cemetery in Goron Dutse, Dala Local Government Area of Kano State, said: “This is worrisome; we are becoming overwhelmed by what we are seeing here these days because, so to me, the way people are dying is not ordinary.”
Mohammed also referred to as Mai Sana’a added that between Saturday and Sunday, over thirty people were buried in the cemetery, in contrast, the o maximum daily record of ten burials previously.
Explaining further that most of the people buried within the period were aged cutting across both sexes.
Similarly, at Abattoir Cemetery near Kofar Mazugal, the newspaper also reported that 61 persons had been buried in the cemetery over the weekend. The cemetery attendants who disclosed this said most of the deaths were from Zage, Darma, Sharifai and Gabari as well as Zangon Barebari communities in Kano municipal.
Some of the residents who spoke with our reporters ascribed the deaths to “severe malaria and typhoid fever besides some other infections and terminal illnesses.” As others further attributed this development to the closure of some of the private hospitals in the city where some of the deceased used to access healthcare following the discovery of the first coronavirus case in the state.
Meanwhile, Kano currently has 59 confirmed cases provided-19.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the country has recorded 117 new cases provided-19, its highest number in a single day.
The country has recorded a total of 782 cases, with 197 recoveries and 25 deaths.
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