The first batch of Nigerians stranded in the United States due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are on their way back home.
coronavirus pandemic are on their way back home.
In line with the government’s pre-departure infection prevention control guidelines, temperature checks were conducted on the passengers by a special medical team. Also around to bid the evacuees farewell was Tijani Muhammad-Bande, President of the United Nations General Assembly and Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the UN.
“It was successful and we are happy that everything was orderly. As you must have observed, the boarding was also orderly,” he said. Ibrahim said he was stranded after his return British Airways flight scheduled for April 10 was suspended following federal government’s travel restrictions on U.S. and 12 other countries with high COVID-19 burden, on March 18.
“I called the airline but they said our return tickets were valid until December, and so we had to wait for the return flight after the restrictions were lifted in Nigeria.“They said but if we wanted to go now through the special flight, then we had to pay for it,” he said.
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