The Kano State Government says it has cordoned off all the Tsangaya schools in Kano metropolis where the five Almajiris who tested positive to coronavirus in Kaduna came from.

Recall that the Kaduna State Government had on Monday, announced that five of the 195 Almajiri children evacuated from Kano tested positive to the virus after arriving the state.

The Commissioner of Education and Chairman of the Almajiri Evacuation Committee, Alhaji Sanusi Kiru told the Punch in Kano on Wednesday that the measure was necessary in order to ensure that the schools were fumigated and disinfected.

He said the decision to fumigate the schools was part of measures taken to prevent further spread of the deadly disease in the state.

He said all suspected children and their teachers will be quarantined while contact tracing of those who had contact with the infected Almajiris had commenced.

The Commissioner maintained that the children went through medical screening before they were repatriated to Kaduna and other states of their origin.

“Before we evacuated those children to their various states of origin, we provided some medical personnel who checked their health status.

“During the preliminary medical checks their temperature was normal,” Kiru said.

According to him, the state government had medical records of all the evacuated Almajiris in addition to knowing which Tsangaya school they came from.

“Therefore, we will do everything possible to stem the spread of the virus in the schools and the state in general,” he said.

The Kano State Government had within the last one week evacuated over 1, 000 Almajiris to Katsina, Jigawa and Kaduna states in an effort to curb the spread of the deadly pandemic in the state.