Covid19: El-Rufai Confirms 50 Almajiri From Kano State Test Positive In Kaduna

By Bimbo Ogunnaike

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai,  has confirmed confirmed that  50 of the almajiri children sent away from Kano State accounted for the 59 active COVID-19 cases in Kaduna State.

El-Rufai confirmed the development on Sunday in his  Twitter handle.

Giving details of the cases, the governor said said: “COVID-19 Update: The Kaduna State Ministry of Health, this evening (Saturday), confirmed receipt of 16 more positive results, 15 of them from almajiri. The state has now recorded 50 cases from repatriated almajiri. Active cases have risen to 59.”

Kaduna State has 66 confirmed cases of the virus, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).

Out of the 66, six people, including Governor El-Rufai, who was the index case, have been treated and discharged, while one case, a retired civil servant who returned from Kano, was confirmed dead on Saturday.

Also, Jigawa State government has hired a private firm to test about 700 almajiri sent packing from Kano and Gombe states.

The state’s Chairman of the Task Force on COVID-19, Dr Abba Zakar Umar, announced this while addressing reporters in Dutse, the state capital, at the weekend.