Contrary to the Federal Government of Nigeria position that 16 Nigerians live in Wuhan, the Chinese city where coronavirus broke out, Chinese authority said there are 60 Nigerians there.
Zhou Pingjian, Chinese ambassador to Nigeria, said this while addressing a press conference in Abuja on Monday.
Zhou also said “there might be 40,000 or 50,000 Chinese nationals in Nigeria”, and that most of them are in Lagos.
Lai Mohammed, minister of information, had said there were 16 Nigerians in Wuhan, and that they were not willing to return.
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But Pingjian said contrary to reports, Nigerians in that part of his country are 60, and that they are all adhering to the advisory issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
”The death toll is not so much in other areas but at the epicentre, due to the stock of the cases, we still need some time to contain it,” he said.