Nigeria, June 17 -- Governor Abdullahi Ganduje on Tuesday rejected the federal government's findings which attributed 50-60 per cent of recent 'mysterious deaths' in Kano to COVID-19.

Mr Ganduje spoke at the Kano government house while receiving a new report of verbal autopsies conducted on the causes of these deaths.

A verbal autopsy is carried out to find the cause of death when the corpse is not physically available or has been buried.

The governor, who described the federal government's report as misleading, said he will pass the 'new findings' to President Muhammadu Buhari, the chairman of the presidential task force, the minister of health, and the national coordinator of the technical committee.

He also hinted that the report w...