Yusuf Bello| The Plateau State government has quarantined three Chinese citizens in the Wase town for suspected case of the novel coronavirus.
The Commissioner for Information in Plateau, Dan Manjang, who made the disclosure on Saturday said the three Chinese citizens, who are workers in a mining site in Wase, flew into Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory on Wednesday and made their way to Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Thursday.
According to him, the three men were being clinically examined by a medical expert deployed by the State Ministry of Health.
Manjang said, “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 commissioner, however, assured the people of the state that there is presently no confirmed case of coronavirus in Plateau.
Manjang, worried that the word ‘quarantine’ could be misconstrued, thereby causing panic among the people, urged the people to remain calm and go about their businesses, as the case was being investigated.
He said, “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.”
The government, the commissioner, said, awaits the report of the team that was sent to Wase before taking the next step.
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