The Lagos government has placed 14 countries on its COVID-19
watchlist as a measure to prevent a third wave of infections in the state.
Akin Abayomi, Lagos commissioner for health, said this on
Wednesday at a media briefing to highlight the state’s COVID-19 third wave
mitigation strategy.
He noted that the Lagos state government is outlining
measures that will guide the management of inbound passengers of interest
(POIs) from other countries.
The commissioner explained that travellers coming from other
countries into Lagos have been classified into three groups — the red
countries, the amber countries, and the green countries.
According to him, India, Brazil and Turkey where new variants of COVID are causing an increase in infection rate are as the ‘red countries’.
“From the Lagos perspective, we’re also looking at what we
describe as Amber Colour countries, where we know that mutants are circulating.
And this is important for us to be able to define how strict our monitoring of
your isolation at home and how your testing is performed. We are monitoring
countries where we know the mutants are circulating, but the situation is still
severe,” he said.
According to him, the ‘amber countries’ are Canada, US,
France, Germany, Netherlands, Togo, Ghana, Cameroun, Angola, South Africa,
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda.
He listed the ‘green countries’ as countries with no records
of variants from red countries and no clear increase in the number of daily
confirmed cases.
“Our protocol for management of inbound passengers from the
Red Countries will include: a mandatory PCR test 72 hours before departure, PCR
test post arrival and a 14-day isolation in a government approved facility paid
for by the passenger,” he said.
“Passengers of interests from the Amber Countries are also
required to do PCR test 72 hours before departure, PCR test post arrival and a
mandatory seven days isolation at home which will be monitored by our
logistics, surveillance and EkoTELEMED teams.”
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