Some undertakers in Kano have expressed worries over the
increasing rate of burials in the past one week.
According to Daily Trust, over 150 people were reported to
have died in Kano between Friday and Saturday and were buried in three
cemeteries.
Bashir Mohammed, one of the undertakers at the Dandolo
cemetery in Goron Dutse, Dala local government area of the state was quoted to
have said: “This is worrisome, we are becoming overwhelmed by what we are
seeing here these days because to me, the way people are dying is not
ordinary.”
Mohammed reportedly said between Saturday and Sunday, more
than 30 people were buried in the cemetery, and this was in contrast to the
maximum daily record of 10 burials.
The newspaper also reported that 61 persons were buried over
the weekend at the Abattoir cemetery near Kofar Mazugal. Most of the deaths
were said to be from Zage, Darma, Sharifai and Gabari and Zangon Barebari
communities in Kano municipal.
Although, residents did not link the cause of the death to
COVID-19, as of Monday, Kano recorded 59 cases of the disease, putting the
state in a third place behind Lagos and the federal capital territory (FCT)
with 376 and 89 cases respectively.
Sheriff Hadi Kabir, chairman of Fagge cemetery committee,
who also lost his father recently, was said to have suspected the cause to be
malaria and typhoid.
“This is not coronavirus as speculated; it is severe malaria
because of our exposure to mosquito bites. We have been battling this kind of
experience almost on yearly bases around this time. So, we are praying to the
government to come to our rescue because this malaria is deadly than the
COVID-19,” he reportedly said.
Reacting, the state task force on COVID-19 said it has
activated the community informants structure of the World Health Organisation
(WHO) to report deaths and cause of deaths and has also deployed officers in
all cemeteries to count bodies brought in for burial every day.
Auwalu Abdu Fagge, the state health educator, in a statement
said: “We cannot afford to let the good people of Kano to panic and lose
confidence in our response. I must state that we are more courageous than ever
in a bid to contain this pandemic.”
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