Kano State Governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, says the state is in a tough situation because of the nearness of the coronavirus illness which have taken the lies of prominents residents of Kano state metropolis, Healthforbes media reports.
Talking on Sunday at the introduction of a COVID-19 Mobile Testing Center gave by the Dangote Foundation to the state,His Excellency Governor Ganduje said the postponement in testing presumed cases was answerable for the detonating number of coronavirus contaminations in the state.
As indicated by an announcement by his Chief Press Secretary, Abba Anwar, the representative said the nonappearance of useful testing habitats in the state exacerbated its circumstance in the midst of the pandemic.
Ganduje stated, “There is no uncertainty that Kano is in a difficult situation. What’s more, there is no uncertainty that we began an insecure establishment. At the point when tests were taken to Abuja for 7 hours and returned again in 7 hours, that was the temperamental establishment I am discussing.
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“We at that point stopped our grumbling to President Muhammadu Buhari, who requested for the foundation of a Testing Center at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital, which after bring off was closed down for certain days if not weeks. That was what raised the transmission of the malady up to network transmission.
“However, with the returning of the AKTH Testing Center and the expansion of Bayero University, Kano that has the limit of testing around 200 examples for each day now, with the happening to Dangote Mobile Testing Center of 400 examples limit, we are making progress in confronting the emergency soundly.”
Additionally present at the occasion, the Director-General of Nigeria Center for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, was cited to have stated, “I simply need the individuals of Kano to comprehend that we have not left you. We are behind you hundred percent.
“I need to guarantee you that, when we get notification from the discoveries of Dr Nasiru Sani Gwarzo’s group from the Presidential Task Force, for the days they have been here, we will have more arrangements that we will use in taking care of the issues from Kano.”
As per the NCDC as of the hour of documenting this report, 329 coronavirus diseases have been accounted for in the state.