Coronavirus: A Brave Nigerian Boy, Olatoye Babatunde volunteers to battle disease in China.photo

Olatoye Babatunde, a 24-year-old student, has volunteered to fight coronavirus in China

- The young Nigerian said he was touched by the commitment of doctors handling the crisis



- Olatoye measures the temperature of residents in his community to check for the infected







As the deadly coronavirus spread across the world, killing and infecting many, a Nigerian is in the face of it all doing what he can to save humanity.

Olatoye Babatunde, a 24-year-old student, is giving his all as a volunteer in China to ensure the citizens are safe.

He measures the temperature of people living in his community, Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu province. Olatoye started his volunteering on Thursday, February 6.

Olatoye works as a record keeper in his community as he checks residents' temperature to know who is infected.

Olatoye works as a record keeper in his community as he checks residents' temperature to know who is infected.

The brave Nigerian said that he volunteered because he was touched by doctors who battle the scourge non-stop in the country.

The 21-year-old first suspected he has caught the virus

Though little was known about the virus at that time, he visited Tongji Hospital where there were many people like him waiting in the line

“I was scared. Countless cases were piling up on the desks, and every single doctor was wearing protective clothes, something I’d never seen before,” he said.

That night after visiting the overworked hospital, he was able to get some medicine at a nearby smaller hospital because he could not deal with the queue.

The heartbreaking part of his story is that doctors earlier dismissed his cases as minor, telling him to just go home and quarantine himself.

Ye said that when his appointment finally came through days later, things had rapidly changed as roads were all totally on lockdown to curb the spread of the virus.