The Jigawa state government today announced that it has recorded 100 deaths in 10 days from a particular local government in the state. The state government is currently investigating circumstances surrounding the mysterious deaths of over 100 persons in Hadeja local government area of the state.
The Special Assistant to the Local Council Chairman on Media, Sani Kakabori, who confirmed this to newsmen, said an average of ten persons mostly above the ages of fifty, have died everyday within the last ten days in the local government.
The State Chairman COVID 19 Task force who is also the Commissioner of health, Dr Abba Zakari Committee, has constituted an investigation team led by Dr Mahmud Abdulwahab with Shehu Mohammad, Yusuf Hakimi, Shehu Sule, and representative of World Health Organization (WHO) as members, to unravel the causes of these mysterious deaths. The Commissioner said the committee is expected to submit their reports within three days. A lot of reports however claim that the cause of the death is the coronavirus and immediate steps should be made to curtail the spread in the state.
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