The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has threatened
to sanction travelers who refused to present themselves for a mandatory
in-country Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test.
The Chairman of the PTF and Secretary to the Government of
the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, made the disclosure in a media briefing on
Tuesday in Abuja, NAN reports.
Mustapha said that the need had arisen to activate the
sanctions which included the suspension of passports of such defaulting
individuals for a period of six months minimum or outright visa cancellation.
Recall that the PTF had earlier urged individuals traveling
to Nigeria from any country to take a COVID-19 PCR test and have a negative
result before traveling.
He also urged them to stay in self-isolation for seven days
on arrival in Nigeria and take another COVID-19 PCR test on day seven.
Mustapha raised alarm over the failure of some Nigerians who
arrived from abroad to present themselves for the in-country PCR test which
they signed up to and paid before arrival.
“It has, therefore, resolved to revoke passports of
travellers that fail to conduct the mandatory COVID-19 PCR test,” he said.
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