The five Nigerians were said to have tested positive of coronavirus between March 28 and March 30, after the screening 3,779 travellers from high-risk countries.
According to the Guangzhou Health Commission, four of them had visited an eatery called Emma Food multiple times.
The restaurant owner, alongside her daughter and another child, later tested positive for the contagion.
The five Nigerians with the infection were said to have been detected between March 28 and March 30, after the screening 3,779 travellers from high-risk countries.
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Guangzhou which is situated 1,028 kilometres (638 miles) south of Wuhan, where coronavirus started from has no recorded 466 new cases.
A total of 197 people who had close contact with the patients have been tested and isolated.
Also, the owner of Emma Food, known as Zhuang, has been put under quarantine since April 1.
Zhuang’s 8-year-old daughter and her three-year-old playmate both were diagnosed with the deadly disease on the next day.
However, Amid a wave of opposition, 15 Chinese medical experts arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday, to join the battle against Coronavirus.
The Federal Government received some medical equipment and supplies brought by medical team which arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja in a chartered Air Peace flight.
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China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), the sponsor of the trip, said they brought about 16-tons of test kits, ventilators, disinfection machine, disposable medical masks, N95 masks, medications, rubber gloves, protective gowns, goggles, face shields, infra-red thermometers and others.
Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, who was at the airport to receive the Chinese and their supplies, said the team will be quarantined for two weeks.
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