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Kano plans home treatment for COVID-19 patients

The Kano State Government on Thursday said it might soon start treating COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms at home.

The  Coordinator of the state task force on COVID-19, Dr Tijjani Husauni, who disclosed this in an interview with The PUNCH in Kano, said individuals in the state had yet to donate their houses as isolation centres.

He stated,  “Nobody has donated any house or structure to the committee to serve as isolation facility.”

He said at the the committee was thinking the possibility of treating patients whose condition were not critical  at home.

 16 Almajarai from Kano test positive in Jigawa

Sixteen of the 45 Jigawa Almajiris returned from Kano State have tested positive for COVID-19.

The state Commissioner of Health and chairman State Taskforce on COVID-19, Dr Abba Zakari disclosed this while addressing a new conference at the NYSC orientation camp, Panisau on Thursday.

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