The Federal Government on Monday
said airlines would be fined $3,500 per passenger for airlifting passengers
without negative COVID-19 test results as it prepared to open international
flights.
The Coordinator, Presidential
Task Force on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, said this at the daily briefing of the
PTF on COVID-19 in Abuja, NAN reports.
Speaking on the new protocols
that would start from August 29, Aliyu said it was expected that passengers
coming into the country must present a PCR COVID-19 test result that was within
seven days.
The coordinator also said that
when a passenger arrived in Nigeria and presented a PCR negative result, the
passenger was expected to self-isolate for seven days and submit his or her
COVID-19 test before reuniting with the community.
On the concerns over cases of
passengers coming into the country with a negative COVID-19 test result and
testing positive in Nigeria, he said that PTF was studying the situation and
would make a decision when the need arose.
Aliyu said that health workers
would monitor passengers on self-isolation, and if any passenger failed to
present itself for testing after seven days, the immigration would assist, and
proper sanctions would be melted to the passenger.
Recall that the Minister of
Aviation, Aden Hadi Sirika, had said the country would ban flights from
countries that have placed bans on flights from Nigeria when the international
flights resume.
Sirika said that meetings have
already been communicated with the international carriers where these decisions
had been revealed to them.
The minister, while speaking on
preparation so far, said: “We are almost there. Just a few things to be done, but
we will be ready in the coming days. By Monday, we will have comprehensive
details for the resumption.”
”About 1,280 passengers will be
allowed in on a daily basis in Abuja and Lagos airports, which have been billed
to start first when the international flights resume.”
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