The United States has invited medical professional to apply for visa amid the increasing number of coronavirus cases.
America has overtaken the number of confirmed cases worldwide and is scrambling to contain the spread.
Most parts of the country are on a two-week lockdown.
U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairs, via its Twitter account, advised health personnel to contact their nearest Embassy for visa appointment.
“We encourage medical professionals seeking work in the U.S. on a work or exchange visitor visa (H or J), particularly those working on #COVID19 issues, to contact the nearest U.S. Embassy/Consulate for a visa appointment”, it tweeted.
There are nearly 90,000 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus in the U.S.
The figure supersedes that of China, where the virus originated, as well as Italy, the worst hit country in Europe.
Numbers of infections in the two countries are just over 80,000 cases each.
Meanwhile President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping have discussed the global pandemic in a phone call.
Coronavirus has caused 25,000 deaths and affected 200 countries.
Bisola
March 27, 2020 at 1:09 pm
Our own striking naija doctors will apply for this visa and leave us o!!! Federal government, are you people seeing this brain drain? God have mercy on Nigeria.
Tunde
March 27, 2020 at 1:10 pm
Omg can you imagine… So they now wanna tell us they value medical foreigners. hypocrites
Dokun
March 27, 2020 at 1:11 pm
wow here is Opportunities for a lot of people
Femi adesina
March 27, 2020 at 1:49 pm
fuck your visa, only when its time to put life on the line you open your border for foreigners. when its all rosy you say we should stay in our shit hole. ya’ll show us how you are god’s own country again.