Nigeria to test international passengers for COVID-19

The Federal Government has ordered the testing of passengers arriving in the country from abroad for COVID-19.

The Director of Port Health Services, Dr. Geoffrey Okatubo, disclosed this during the ministerial bi-weekly meeting on COVID-19 on Monday in Abuja.

He said the federal government was undertaking other measures as well to keep COVID-19 under control.

Although many countries have declared that travelers from selected countries would be subjected to COVID-19 tests, the director said all passengers would be tested in Nigeria.

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He noted that positive cases would be quarantined and all negative cases monitored.

The new measure followed the reports on the rise of COVID-19 cases in China, the United Kingdom, the United States, and other nations.

Okatubo said: “COVID-19 self-tests (RTD) will be handed out at all our international airports, land and sea borders, while travellers will also be informed on the importance of measures that they can take to prevent being infected.”

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