Dr. Osagie Ehanire, the Minister of Health, has denied knowledge of the whereabout of the 15 Chinese nationals, who recently came into the country as medical personnel to “help in the fight against COVID-19”.
Dr. Ehanire said this during the daily COVID-19 Presidential Task Force briefing on Thursday.
According to him, not all of the visitors earlier announced as medics have something to do with the medical profession, as many of them wete technicians.
He noted that the 15 Chinese were not guests of the Nigerian Government but of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC).
He said, “I think not all of them were doctors and I heard that some of them are technicians, but they are staff of CCECC.
“The Ministry of Health is not their host, so we can’t always explain what happened to them or where they are. There seems to be a lot of interest in these doctors. But they are the staff of the company and I think that they are on a company visa.
“But we have been able to learn some things from them by interacting with them from their experience in their country and they did tell us and we shared ideas on what they did in their country in managing COVID-19.”
