Co-chair, two members of Kano Task Force test positive for coronavirus

Three members of the Kano State Task Force on COVID-19 have tested positive for coronavirus.

Kano State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa, confirmed this on Friday during a press conference.

He maintained that the number of #COVID-19 confirmed cases in the state as at 11:15am on Friday remains 21 with a single death.

Daily Trust had exclusively reported that Kano deputy governor Nasiru Gawuna, two commissioners and Governor Abdullahi Ganduje’s daughter have gone into self-isolation after a co-member on the State Task Force on COVID-19 they work with got infected with the virus.

All six are members of the state task force on COVID-19, chaired by deputy governor Gawuna.

PRESS RELEASE!!!
Kano State Commissioner of Health, Dr. Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa, has maintained that the number of #COVID-19 confirmed cases in the state as at 11:15 am today Friday remains 21 with a single death @KanostateNg pic.twitter.com/FQDqR4z0GY

— Kano State Ministry of Health (@KNSMOH) April 17, 2020

They include Amina Umar Ganduje, health commissioner Aminu Tsanyawa, environment commissioner Kabiru Getso, and Imam Wada, secretary of the committee.

Daily Trust gathered that their decision to go into self-isolation followed the discovery of the status of the co-chair of the committee, Professor Abdulrazaq Garba Habibu, whose result indicated that he tested positive for COVID-19.

Dr. Tsanyawa confirmed the report during the press conference, stressing that three members of the task force have tested positive for the virus.

“With a deep sense of sadness and on behalf of the Kano state government hereby announces that the Co-Chairman and some members of Kano State Taskforce on #Covid_19 were tested and three of the results came out positive of the Corona Virus disease,”.

“The government, therefore, advises the general public to keep #SocialDistancing, avoid #Overcrowding and #StayAtHome to #keepsafe as it continues to take measures to contain the spread of the disease in Kano,” he noted in a statement.