The committee constituted by the Jigawa state government to investigate the mysterious deaths in Hadejia local government area in the state, says investigation so far has shown that 92 bodies were buried in the two cemeteries in the area in just one week.
WITHIN NIGERIA had earlier reported that there were fears in the state after records of a hundred deaths within the space of ten days, mostly persons who are over the age of fifty.
Dr. Abdulwahab Muhammad, chairman of the investigating committee set up by Governor Mohammed Badaru Abubakar to investigate the mysterious deaths, revealed this to journalists on Thursday in Dutse, the capital, after a fact-finding survey.
”We went to Hadejia together with WHO and NCDC to find out what exactly was happening. We collected three sets of data. We collected data from the hospitals over a week period indicating how many people have died.
We found out that there were a total of 44 deaths in the General hospital from on the 28th of April to 5th of May. That was the data from the hospital.
We also went to the community. We were able to do community survey and find out the total number of death. We discovered that there were 46 deaths within that same period.
We now said there is no data evidence of deaths than the graves where these people were buried. There are only two cemeteries in the community. We went there and with the assistance of the undertakers, we were able to count the number of graves that were made over that one week and we discovered that there were 92 graves.
None of them had history of travel to any state where there are cases of COVID and none of them also had history of contact with anyone that was suspected or confirmed to be having COVID.
70% of the deceased had pre-existing illnesses like Diabetes, dementia, Chronic kidney disease.
It is only one of them that had symptoms that were suggesting of COVID19” he said