Kaduna State Government has warned that anyone who conceals a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) positive status will be prosecuted. It has, however, traced up to 95 per cent of contacts and discovered 28 active cases.
The Commissioner for Health, Dr. Amina Mohammed-Baloni, stated yesterday that one of the two isolated males who were receiving treatment had died.
She said, “He was a retired civil servant, male, with underlying medical conditions, who concealed his recent travel to Kano when he visited a public hospital and a private hospital.
“He was eventually admitted at the isolation center with respiratory distress. He died before his positive test result was released. He is the first COVID-19 fatality in Kaduna State.”
Meanwhile, rights activist, Senator Shehu Sani, has said that illiteracy and religious dogmatism are responsible for the high rate of death and spread of COVID-19 in Kano and other states in the North.
Sani, in a statement at the weekend, said that despite the campaign against the spread of the virus, many people in the North, particularly in Kano, did not believe in the orthodox and western prescriptions to fight the spread of the disease, while warning against the genocide such attitude might bring about in the entire region.