4 months old baby survives COVID-19, discharged from Isolation Centre
The Commissioner of Health for Kaduna State, Dr Amina Mohammed Baloni, on Saturday May 30, 2020, disclosed that a four-month-old baby that tested positive for the ravaging coronavirus has been discharged.
The Commissioner disclosed this while giving an update on the COVID-19 pandemic on Saturday, and she added that there are currently 76 active cases of the deadly virus in the state. She further explained that out of “the total number of 232 cases reported, 149 have been discharged, while seven deaths have been recorded”.
She also warned that “the state has tested almost 2000 samples, but case numbers are likely to rise further as more tests are conducted in more places”.
According to her, “COVID-19 cases have been recorded in 33 wards in nine local government areas of the state: Chikun, Giwa, Igabi, Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Makarfi, Sabon-Gari, Soba and Zaria. The data shows that 80% of the infected persons are male”.
She disclosed further that majority of the cases have records of interstate travels or are contacts with affected persons.
“In addition to public health warnings to avoid interstate travel, state health officials have been engaged in vigorous contact tracing to contain the spread of the infections”, she assured.
“The Ministry has further stepped up active case searching and testing in communities to stem secondary infections”, adding that the testing capacity of the state is being enhanced to enable more aggressive testing in the coming weeks.
She also revealed that the state has taken “delivery of a mobile testing truck a few days ago, while it awaits the delivery of equipment that would enable the mobile truck and 12 GeneXpert machines spread across several general hospitals to increase the number of testing labs in the state”.
“The addition of the flexibility of a mobile testing vehicle and testing labs in LGAs will enable the state to ascertain with greater accuracy its Covid-19 status and allow that data to inform further decision on reopening the state”, she assured.
The statement further disclosed that the testing laboratory in Yusuf Dantsoho Hospital is awaiting Nigerian Centre for Disease Control(NCDC) validation.
