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The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, at a press briefing on the outbreak of Coronavirus in Nigeria

The Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, at a press briefing on the outbreak of Coronavirus in Nigeria

22 travelers test positive for COVID-19 – PTF

The Federal Ministry of Health has warned Nigerians against non-essential travel to high burden countries.

byAgency Report
October 8, 2020
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The Minister of health, Osagie Ehanire, has revealed that 22 persons have so far tested positive for COVID-19, among the 1,473 persons of interest tested since the reopening of the nation’s international airspace.

Mr Ehanire stated this at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 briefing on Thursday in Abuja, and said these persons were among the passengers who recently returned from overseas.

According to him, “We are especially worried, about the huge COVID increases in certain countries with which we have high volume of human traffic.

“The Federal Ministry of Health therefore wishes to advise Nigerians against non-essential travel to high burden countries.

“The risks that the movement of travelers create, can only be countered with improved surveillance programmes.

“I wish to specially solicit that all travelers cooperate with border authorities to protect our people and also our health system from stress.

“We are obliged to reduce the risk of COVID importation to a minimum.

“As at 26th September, out of a total of 1,473 Persons of Interest (POI) tested across 3 laboratories in the FCT since the opening of the international travel air space, 22 tested positive.”

The minister further noted that “our testing and tracing capabilities have improved a lot, such that virtually every state has least one laboratory that has increased our daily testing capacity to about 3,500.

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“We are, however, testing well below that capacity, because laboratories are receiving fewer samples than they could handle, leaving some partners to doubt our reports.

“I therefore appeal to state governments to improve on sample collection and capacity utilisation.

“All persons with COVID evocative symptoms, or who may have come in contact with a confirmed covid case should please submit themselves for testing,” the minister said.

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Meanwhile, the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, revealed that Emirates airlines would begin operations into Nigeria today as the UAE had resumed issuing of visas to Nigerians.

Mr Sirika also stated that out of the passengers who have returned since the opening of the airspace, 27 persons have been found to have fake COVID-19 test result or none at all.

He said that the airlines that brought them in will face the penalty as stipulated before reopening of the airspace.

He also revealed that all planes coming into Nigeria are expected to carry only 200 passengers and the situation will remain so for now.

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