“Where I am in is called Lanzhou City, Gansu Province.”
A Nigerian student in Lanzhou University, Lanzhou city, Gansu Province, who preferred anonymity, told The Guardian in a WhatsApp message: “Actually sir we are all fine here. Though we are not allowed to go out, we live normally. The school usually checks on us everyday, checks our temperature, and always asks us to put on nose masks no matter where we are. As much as you can in a day, wash hands and avoid touching other hands, shaking people, embracing.
In an open letter yesterday signed by Ayodeji Adetunji, the Nigerians lamented that they were stuck in China, saying that foreigners who might want to travel out of Wuhan to their countries would require diplomatic support to leave because there were no commercial means to travel as rail, air and road travels inbound and outbound had been temporarily stopped by the Chinese government.
“However, Your Excellency, Mr. President, it saddens us that days and weeks have gone past, following several engagements with government, we are yet to be evacuated. We have obtained information from our Chinese friends and colleagues that normalcy may not return to Wuhan until the end of May 2020. But the Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, yesterday dismissed reports that Nigerians in China want to be evacuated back to the country like citizens from most other countries have been flown back to their nations due to the raging killer virus in the Asian country.
“In fact, the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation in China has written a letter of appreciation to the Nigerian ambassador in China.” On any new strategy being adopted by the country to control the virus, Ehanire said: “We have received our 2,000 doses of reagent for testing of the coronavirus. The Chinese government sent doses of the reagent to African CDC from where we got the 2,000. We now have enough reagents to do a wide test. They have treated and discharged 4,700 patients. They have also sent the treatment protocol to the NCDC. We are working closely with the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria.
Dale Fisher, chair of the Global Outbreak Alert Response Network at the WHO, said: “It has spread to other places where it’s the beginning of the outbreak. In Singapore, we are at the beginning of the outbreak. I’d be pretty confident though that eventually every country will have a case.”Singapore has reported 50 coronavirus cases, one of the highest tallies outside China, including mounting evidence of local transmission.
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