Coronavirus: Cameroonian student in China first African victim

According to The Guardian, more than 80,00 African students are in China, hundreds of those students have been caught in the lockdown of Wuhan city.

Many of these students are calling out for an evacuation from the city as they lack key supplies such as water, food and surgical masks.

The Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Zhou Pingjian, in a media briefing that was held on Monday in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, said that sixty Nigerians are trapped in Wuhan. Nigerians in China, have repeatedly called out to the Nigerian Diaspora Commission to evacuate them, a request which they said has fallen on deaf ears.

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