Federal Government’s Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 has banned no fewer than 2,000 travellers from flying in and out of the country for one year for evading the coronavirus Polymerase Chain Reaction test at the nation’s international airports.
The National Incidents Manager of the Presidential Steering Committee, Mukhtar Muhammad, made the disclosure at a briefing on Monday, in Abuja.
Muhammad said that the names of the over 2,000 citizens and foreigners had been pasted at all the major federal medical facilities where medical experts were assigned to give care to travellers during the COVID-19 third wave.
He disclosed that the government insisted that passengers, who arrived into the country especially from high-risk countries, must be quarantined in a government facility.
According to him, the passports of defaulters had been suspended for one year.
He said, “We have included the provision of quarantine for passengers who arrived from high risk countries and people who evaded these protocols have been penalised by publishing their names as well as suspending their passports for one year.
“Let me assure you that so far, we have published the list of over 2,000 people who evaded quarantine in our health facilities. And, we have gone ahead to ensure that their passports are suspended, so, for every action there are consequences,” he said.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the PSC on May 1, 2021, issued a travel advisory for passengers arriving in Nigeria from Brazil, India and Turkey.
