Two health workers in Kano state have tested positive to COVID-19, an official, has disclosed.

The Coordinator, Kano State Taskforce Committee on COVID-19, Dr. Tijjani Hussaini made the disclosure while addressing a news conference in Kano on Wednesday.

He said the two health workers were among the 73 positive cases so far recorded in the state.

According to him, “over these 13 days since we recorded the first index case, we are able to have 320 suspected cases out of which 73 are laboratory confirmed.

“Similarly, two of these 73 confirmed cases are health workers. Since the beginning of this outbreak, we were able to monitor 53 cases of passengers of interest (those people who came from high-risk areas outside of Nigeria and states faced with high challenges of COVID-19).

“We have also admitted 63 out of the 73 cases and by the end of today (Wednesday) the remaining will be evacuated to the isolation centers.

“One of the hallmarks of this response is contact tracing. At the moment, we have listed over 300 contacts person and we are following up on 259 of these contacts.

“These contacts, we follow them either through phone or visit them physically to their houses to ensure that we have not left any stone unturned.

“We also set up rapid response teams that will go and do an investigation, take samples, and ensure that these samples are delivered in our laboratories. We are in the process of increasing the number of rapid response teams from 30 to 40.

“As we have learned, we had a momentary setback last week because our co-chair was diagnosed with covid-19, but the state government quickly put up another structure to ensure that the coordination mechanism does not break down.

“We have reconstituted and we are much stronger now. So Kano people should be confident that this outbreak would be brought under control as soon as possible.

“Let me also say here that our testing centers do not run out of commodities,” Dr. Tijjani said.

Recall that the state as of Tuesday night had 73 confirmed cases, one death but yet to discharged any patient.