Kano Blames Diabetes, Hypertension For Deaths

The Kano State Government has ruled out COVID-19 from the spate of recent deaths in the state as it on Monday linked the deaths to diabetes, hypertension, and meningitis.

Salihu Tanko Yakasai, the Special Adviser on Media to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje in an interview also gave justified the decision to lift the lockdown in the state in the week before the spike in COVID-19 cases in the state.

Yakasai who spoke in an interview on TVC on Monday also played down claims that up to 640 persons had died in the last week.

While he said he could not give an exact number of the mortalities, he, however, said that it was not as much as has been variously reported in conventional and social media.

Kano State has in recent days suffered a higher than normal level of deaths including some of its most prominent persons including five professors having died in the last week.

Asked on the cause of the deaths, Yakasai said the Ministry of Health was investigating the issue and would come up with what he said was the correct figure of the mortalities.

He, however, said that those who died had underlying complications such as hypertension, diabetes which he said was worsened by the increasing cases of meningitis.

On the reason for the relaxation of the lockdown in the face of the threats, he said, “we had to relax because people had been locked up for weeks and we had to give them opportunity to go and restock otherwise we could have an uprising during the Ramadan.”

He also said the state was challenged financially saying that revenue even before the COVID-19 pandemic had shrunken to about half of the normal.

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