Nigeria will certainly prohibit access to non-Nigerian travelers that took a trip to India, Brazil, and also Turkey in the last 2 weeks as a result of problems over the fast spread of coronavirus in those 3 countries.
The traveling restriction introduced on Sunday does not relate to travelers that transited with those nations, Nigeria’s governmental guiding board on COVID-19 stated in a declaration.
” These preventive steps are an essential action to reduce the danger of a rise in COVID-19 instances presented to Nigeria from various other nations,” it stated.
Nigerians and also irreversible homeowners that remained in those nations in the last 14 days will certainly need to go through necessary quarantine for a week in a government-approved center on arrival.
All travelers getting here in Nigeria will certainly currently need to reveal an unfavorable COVID-19 examination taken within 72 hrs of traveling as opposed to the previous 96- hr duration.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populated nation, has actually reported greater than 165,000 coronavirus instances and also 2,060 fatalities because COVID-19 initially arised in China at the end of 2019.