Three persons have died of the coronavirus in Sokoto State, Governor Aminu Tambuwal has said.
The governor disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Muhammad Bello.
Tambuwal noted that all the three victims had underlying health conditions such as diabetes, asthma, and high blood pressure.
The state’s chairman of the Task Force Committee on COVID-19, Dr Muhammad Inname, had on Monday confirmed 8 new cases of the coronvirus, which took to 10, the total number of infected persons in the state.
Inname, who is also the state’s Commissioner for Health, said that eight new cases were recorded on April 26 and were all among the 32 traced contacts from the index case recorded in the state.
He said that the second case was recorded on April 23 and that all the traces had been investigated.
He added that they were all quarantined, while all the positive patients were isolated.
Inname gave an assurance that investigation was still on to unravel the circumstances surrounding the infections, as the first case, which was recorded on April 19, had no travel record.
According to him, at least 59 people have so far been tested in the state.
