Plateau State Government has quarantined four Chinese citizens in Wase town on suspicion of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).
Commissioner for Information in Plateau, Dan Manjang, revealed this on Saturday.
He said the three Chinese citizens, who are workers in a mining site in Wase, arrived Abuja on Wednesday while one arrived on Tuesday.
“The situation right now is that they have been isolated,” Mr Manjang said.
“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 commissioner said the men arrived Jos, Plateau State capital, on Thursday.
A medical team deployed by the State Ministry of Health is currently examining them, he said.
Manjang calmed fears, saying there was no confirmed case of coronavirus in Plateau yet.
“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,” he said.
“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.”
