Nigeria, April 8 -- The Kano State Government said over 6,000 medical and health professionals have applied to assist the state as volunteers in the fight against the spread of coronavirus.

The state commissioner for health, Aminu Tsanyawa, disclosed this on Wednesday while briefing journalists on the situation of COVID-19 in Kano.

He said the government will thoroughly screen the applicants and recruit the best.

The government had earlier called for volunteer medical health professionals such as doctors, community health extension workers, nurses and community health officers.

Other volunteers needed are laboratory technicians and scientists, pharmacists and pharmaceutical technicians, environmental health officers and environmental ...