Three Chinese nationals have been quarantined in the Wase town of Plateau State, Channels Television is reporting.
The TV station said the Commissioner for Information in Plateau, Dan Manjang, disclosed this to it on Saturday.
The Chinese are being tested for coronavirus.
The disease broke out in Wuhan, China, with death toll now over 2,000.
Manjang said the three Chinese citizens, who are workers in a mining site in Wase, flew into Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, on Friday.
He said they then made their way to Jos, the Plateau State capital, on the same day, adding that they were being clinically examined by a medical expert deployed by the State Ministry of Health.
