The Kano State Government said it has begun contact tracing of the five Almajiri pupils who tested positive for coronavirus in Kaduna State.
Recall that the Kaduna State Government had, on Monday, announced that five of the 195 Almajiri children evacuated from Kano tested positive for the virus.
Reacting to the development, Kano State Commissioner of Education, Muhammad Sanusi, said the government would conduct contact tracing of the Almajiri schools where the affected children were evacuated from and sent to their states of origin.
The Commissioner, who is also the Chairman of the Almajiri Evacuation Committee, disclosed that the children were screened to ascertain their health status before they were conveyed to Kaduna and other states.
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“Although, before we evacuated those children to their various states of origin, we provided some medical personnel to check their health status.
“During the preliminary medical checks their temperature was normal.
“We have records of all the evacuated Almajiri children, we know which Tsangaya school they belong, therefore, we are going to trace those schools to stem spread of the virus,” he said.
Kano State Government had evacuated over 1, 000 Almajiri children to Katsina, Jigawa and Kaduna States in the past one week.
