COVID-19: Nigerians Evacuated From UK Would Undergo 14-Day Quarantine – Minister

Nigeria’s Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama said on Friday, that citizens who had returned from the United Kingdom, would undergo a 14-day quarantine, to be safe and to keep the country safe.

He made this known a tweet.

“First Set of Nigerians evacuated from the UK arrived Lagos enroute Abuja where the evacuees will be quarantined for mandatory 14 days,” he tweeted.

The directive is in line with the public health advisory on covid-19.

Channels Television reports that they arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at about 7:54 pm on Friday, hours after an initial flight from the UK had landed in Lagos State.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had also said that the country would be evacuating about 4,000 Nigerians back home.

256 Nigerians were evacuated from Dubai on Wednesday.