Covid-19: UN, WHO redeploy personnel to rescue people in Kano

Following the pandemic ravaging the northern part of Nigeria, the United Nations and the World Health Organisation have redeployed 3,000 of their personnel in Kano State to save the situation.

This was disclosed in Abuja by the Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, on Friday May 1, 2020.

“I wish to inform you that our response to the situation in Kano State is producing expected outcomes since testing was ramped up.

“The state task force in collaboration with our team have also expanded contact tracing and isolation,” he said.

He added that the government was making frantic efforts to build capacity for coordination and care management and supply chain.

“We are also putting together a structure from the Presidential Task Force team to provide support on a full-time basis.

“The United Nations system coordinated by the World Health Organisation is also putting together a search team and repurposing 3,000 community informants from the Primary Healthcare in Kano State to strengthen the coordination of COVID-19 at state and local government levels,” he added.

“Although the spike in numbers coming out of Kano is a bit worrisome, global trends showed that such indicates discovery of previously undetected cases and creates greater opportunities for detection and isolation, care and management,” he concluded.