JUST IN: 269 Stranded Nigerians Arrive From India
This picture shows some of the stranded Nigerians who returned to the country recently. PHOTO: Twitter:@nidcom_govThe Federal Government has continued to evacuate Nigerians trapped in countries around the world as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.
This comes as a new set of 269 stranded Nigerians arrived in the country from India in the early hours of Saturday.According to the agency, 103 of the evacuees arrived in Lagos and 166 others landed in Abuja at about 2am, after a few hours of delay. Following their arrival, the returnees were subjected to compulsory 14 days self-isolation, in line with the protocol by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.
The NIDCOM stated that all the evacuees tested negative before boarding the plane and would be re-tested within 72 hours at a designated testing centre of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control . They were brought back to Nigeria from India aboard an Air Peace plane which first landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja before proceeding to the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos.
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