The Kano State government has discharged 16 coronavirus patients after they have tested negative for the novel coronavirus twice consecutively.
This was revealed in a statement released by Muhammad Garba, the state’s Commissioner for information on Thursday, bringing the number of discharged cases in the state to 22.
Among those released was Dr Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa who is the state’s commissioner for health, a professor of Infectious diseases, Prof Abdulrazaq Garba Habib who is a professor in the Department of Medicine, Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital in Kano, and he is also the co-chairman of the state’s task force on COVID-19.
This comes just hours after the country recorded the highest number of cases in a single day, with 381 cases reported on the Thursday report from the NCDC, with another 55 in the state.