Three Chinese Nationals who are workers in a mining site in
Wase town of Plateau State, have been quarantined for suspected case of the
novel coronavirus.
Commissioner for Information in Plateau, Dan Manjang
revealed that the Chinese citizens who flew into Abuja on Wednesday February
26, travelled down to Jos, the Plateau State capital on Thursday February 27.
Manjang who averred that there is no confirmed case of
coronavirus in Plateau, said the Chinese nationals are still being clinically
examined by a medical expert deployed by the State Ministry of Health.
He told Channels Television;
“The situation right now is that they have been isolated.
“The three of them came in through Abuja and once we heard
that, the Commissioner for Health had to take a proactive measure to send a
medical team to Wase to go and investigate.
“The problem that we have is that there is a tendency for
people to think that investigation or quarantine, as the case may be, means
that there is an outbreak of the virus.
“As far as Plateau case is concerned, there has been no
known case of this virus on the Plateau; we just took proactive measures to
make sure that we place them (the Chinese nationals) under investigation and
that will take 14 days.”
Manjang further disclosed that the Plateau state government
is currently waiting for the report of the team that was sent to Wase before
taking the next step.
