The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola on Tuesday said the 15 Chinese experts who came into Nigeria to support the fight against COVID-19 are still in Nigeria working

Aregbesola disclosed this while responding to journalists at Presidential Task Force (PTF) briefing on COVID-19.

He noted that they are in the country on the bill of China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) to assist in building and equipping isolation centres.

He added that the Chinese experts came into Nigeria on a 30-day visa issued in Beijing and they are still in the country because of the restriction on travel occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Indeed 15 Chinese nationals came into Nigeria on 8th of April. They are here on the bill of the CCECC, a Chinese company doing some works for us in Nigeria in conjunction with some Nigerian companies they agreed to support us in the effort to respond to the pandemic.”

“At Idu isolation centre in Abuja, they participated in retrofitting and equipping the isolation centre. They equally worked on the Dome project, that was handled by the NNPC Construction in conjunction with ThisDay.

“So, those are the locations in which they came to work. Both in retrofitting the Iju facility and installing critical essential medical equipment,” the Minister explained.