We Are Not Stopping Chinese, Italians, Others From Visiting Nigeria — FG

The federal government of Nigeria has made it known that it has no plan to place restrictions on foreigners from countries with high case of coronavirus.

This was made known by the minister of state for health, Olorunmibe Mamora while addressing a press conference in Abuja.

However, he stated that foreigners from China (where the disease originated last year), Japan, Iran, Italy, Germany, France, South Korea and Spain would be subjected to secondary screening at the point of entering into the country.

His Words:

“Despite we have not recorded a confirmed COVID-19 case in the last one week in Nigeria, it is important to remember that we are still at high risk like other countries. We will continue to monitor returning travellers that fit our case definition and improve our surveillance, detection and risk communications

“Travellers from these eight countries will undertake secondary screening at the point of entry. They are also advised to self-isolate for 14 days on entry.