Coronavirus: Federal Government Gives Update On Chinese Doctors

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, has spoken on the Chinese medical team in Nigeria.

Ehanire noted that Chinese medical doctors in the country are sharing their experiences from the quarantine location in the coronavirus fight in the country.

The Minister further stated that the medical team are still under 14-day quarantine but engaging via teleconferencing with officials and partners of the ministry.

He stated this during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on Coronavirus in Abuja on Friday.

The Minister said, “The Chinese team are still in quarantine for 14 days but our directors, officials and technical partners in the ministry have had a teleconference with them, in which they exchanged ideas and were able to learn a lot of things about how they handled their cases, patients and how they carried out their infection prevention.”

“The shipment that came in through the United Nations system and the one that came from China were decontaminated as a routine process.”

“They have both been decontaminated by the same process by the Ministry of Environment.”