Sixty-seven travellers who arrived Nigeria from Ivory Coast
have been put in isolation at a facility in Badagry, Lagos state.
There was panic in Osun over
fears that the travellers would head to the state.
In March, the state had received 127 returnees from Ivory
Coast among whom 17 tested positive for COVID-19.
A top government official who spoke off the record had said that the state could not afford to host more returnees, given that not
all those who claimed they were from Osun in the last batch are truly from the
state.
NAN said the 67 Nigerians resident in Ivory Coast arrived at
Seme border in Lagos on Wednesday, disclosing that most of the passengers in a
luxurious bus with registration number Osun XA 240 EJG which conveyed them were
women, children and few men.
Officials from the Lagos state ministry of health arrived at
the Seme border post around 4pm and took the returnees to isolation centres in
Badagry for tests and quarantine.
The Nigerians, who left Ivory Coast on Sunday, were delayed
on their way because of the border closures in Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic
due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Am official of Nigeria Immigration Service in Seme who did
not want his name mentioned, said they had earlier informed the Lagos state
government of their arrival.
He said that most of the returnees were from Ejigbo in Osun,
resident in Ivory Coast but decided to come back to Nigeria when the COVID-19
broke out in the country.
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